API Versioning Strategies — Roadmap Step & Resources
URI versioning, header versioning and evolving an API without breaking clients
- Level: advanced
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: Java + Spring Boot
Before this step
Interview questions
- What are the trade-offs between URI-based and header-based API versioning?
Study resources
- API Versioning Strategies (Article) — freeCodeCamp's guide to strategies for evolving APIs without breaking consumers.
- API Versioning Explained (Video) — Covers backward-compatible vs breaking API changes and how to manage them.
- REST API Versioning (Article) — Baeldung's clear comparison of URI-based, header-based and other API versioning strategies.
Part of
- Building REST APIs with Spring Boot — section
- Java + Spring Boot roadmap — the full learning path