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Re:Ask HN: Are we overcomplicating software development? by cgdub on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @03:33PM (#13430037)
If you need to change your microservice's API in a non-backwards compatible way, you have the exact same problem plus significant operational complexity.
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Re:Ask HN: Are we overcomplicating software development? by chjh on Thursday January 19, 2017 @01:48AM (#13433669)
Don't you just create a new one and let the old go obsolete when the "users" switch?
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Re:Ask HN: Are we overcomplicating software development? by StillBored on Thursday January 19, 2017 @06:29PM (#13440430)
Which is basically what you do for a traditional library as well. Tweak the header so anything being recompiled against it gets a different function signature. Then old apps continue to work, and newly built apps get the fix.
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