Backward compatibility considerations

One of our developers posted an article on our corporate blog about backward compatibility. He discusses 6 conceptually different ways of handling the backward compatibility problem in an application or API.

Backward compatibility is something that is often not taken into account from the start when developing a project, and it can bite you at a later stage. So I think it's a good read.

You can find the post here.

Tags: backward compatibility, design, programming

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