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Optimizing SW Adoption & Maintenance: API Compatibility Guarantees with Björn Rabenstein

Optimizing SW Adoption & Maintenance: API Compatibility Guarantees with Björn Rabenstein

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Today we have a very special guest, Björn Rabenstein, ultra experienced engineer, long time Prometheus maintainer. In this episode we touch on the topic of versioning and backward or forward compatibility of software APIs and interfaces. Learn how to make your code nice for others or use versioned components effectively for yourself. We discuss semver, and why you also seen many projects, escaping this model with lifetime version of v0. The main topic starts at 18m35s. References:

  • No lens camera: https://futurism.com/the-byte/camera-no-lens-location-ai

  • Crab: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36122270

  • Paying for GH stars: https://the-guild.dev/blog/judging-open-source-by-github-stars?utm_source=unknownews

  • Stack Overflow seeing lower traffic: https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/ai-news/stack-overflow-chatgpt/?utm_source=unknownews

  • Nvidia passes 1 trillion $ of evaluation: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/30/nvidia-chipmaker-value-ai-chip-shares-artificial-intelligence

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