Use links not keys to represent relationships in APIs

Re:Use links not keys to represent relationships in APIs by bradleyjg on Sunday May 12, 2019 @11:23AM (#19892447)

Google seems almost pathologically allergic to maintaining backward compatibility in any context. Just doesn’t seem to be in their DNA. So it’s no surprise that advice originating from there doesn’t put much thought into how to maintain backward compatibility.

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Re:Use links not keys to represent relationships in APIs by jon-wood on Sunday May 12, 2019 @12:21PM (#19892801)

I wonder if this is an artifact of their monorepo developer culture, where they allow only one version of a library in the whole repo, and changing APIs is something that can be applied across the entire codebase?

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