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Your team needs to change the API's response format in a way that will break existing integrations. How do you ship it?

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Developer trust in an API rests on stability. The interviewer wants versioning, a long overlap, migration help and measurement, with the breaking change treated as a cost to minimise.

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Developer trust in an API rests on stability. The interviewer wants versioning, a long overlap, migration help and measurement, with the breaking change treated as a cost to minimise.

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