9 docs tagged with "contracts"

Design API contracts, implement semantic versioning, detect breaking changes, and evolve schemas while maintaining backward compatibility with existing clients.

How to tell architecture decisions from design and implementation, with cues, examples, and a flow.

Test API contracts between services; catch breaking changes early with CDC.

Build high-performance binary RPC systems with HTTP/2 streaming

Clients should not depend on interfaces they don't use. Break large interfaces into smaller, focused ones.

Define crisp boundaries and explicit, testable contracts to decouple teams and evolve systems safely.

Subtypes must be substitutable for their supertypes without breaking client code. Preserve behavioral contracts.

Master the fundamentals of systems thinking for software architecture: components, connectors, configurations, interfaces, and abstractions to reason about change, risk, and evolution.

High-impact, hard-to-reverse decisions that shape system structure, qualities, and evolution.