SaaS Engineering
API Versioning Strategies That Don't Break Your Customers' Integrations
The day you ship your first public API is the day backward compatibility stops being optional. Most teams find this out the hard way.
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The day you ship your first public API is the day backward compatibility stops being optional. Most teams find this out the hard way.
"We will fix it later" is a real financial decision with a real interest rate. Here is how we actually quantify it for clients.
A hardcoded "admin" and "member" role gets you to your first enterprise deal. It does not survive contact with their security questionnaire.
Usage-based pricing sells well on a pricing page. The metering, reconciliation and dispute-handling behind it is where most implementations quietly fail.
The shared-schema-with-a-tenant-id approach that got you to your first hundred customers is not the same decision as your thousandth. Here is how we decide.
Thirty minutes with the people who would actually do the work — no discovery deck, no account manager.