Chapter 11. Best Practices and Conventions
This chapter will teach you to stand out among the rest of the developers. This is possible by developing and executing the strategies learned in this book with style, and by following concrete standards.
Code versioning best practices
Over time, your application will evolve and, at some point, you will be at the point where you are wondering what you will do with the API of any of your microservices. You can keep the changes to a minimum and be transparent to the users of your API, or you can create different versions of your code. The best solution is versioning your code (API).
The well-known and commonly used ways for code versioning are as listed:
- URL: In this method, you add the version of your API ...
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