API Compatibility articles

4/19/2025 • EN

Explores building a web framework designed for AI-generated code, addressing LLM challenges like API mismatches and training data limitations.

API Compatibility JavaScript llm Training Data web framework

1/15/2024 • EN

Introduces EffVer, a versioning scheme that communicates the expected effort required for users to upgrade, as an alternative to SemVer and CalVer.

API Compatibility Release Management semantic versioning software development versioning

4/26/2021 • EN

Explains how javac's ct.sym file ensures Java backwards compatibility by controlling API usage for different target versions.

API Compatibility backwards compatibility Bytecode compiler Java

4/26/2021 • EN

Explains how javac's ct.sym file ensures Java backwards compatibility by managing API availability across different Java versions.

API Compatibility backwards compatibility Bytecode Classpath Javac

8/29/2016 • EN

Using RSpec metadata filtering to test a Ruby API client against multiple versions of an upstream service (Vault) on Travis CI.

API Compatibility continuous integration Rspec testing travis ci

5/16/2014 • EN

Explains how Java 8's default methods, while useful for API evolution, can unexpectedly break existing user code and cause compilation errors.

API Compatibility Backward Compatibility Default Methods Interface Evolution Java 8

API Compatibility Articles