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Episode 542: Brendan Callum on Contract-Driven APIs

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Is Your API Not Consistent?

A lot of this was actually driven from partner feedback too. One of the biggest things that different developers would tell us is that they had a really hard time predicting how the API would behave from our documentation. And so what they're really asking for was consistency, predictability, and not having lots of kind of undocumented changes that cause them to thrash and break their apps. Yeah, so we decided that we really need to flip our development process. We need to have a consistent set of core reviewers who look first at the spec design and the quality of the interface that we're presenting to partners.

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