System Design – API Versioning
Practice system design interview questions on API versioning. Cover URL, header, and query versioning approaches and trade-offs. Answer questions and receive feedback. Ideal for software engineer system design prep. First 2 questions are free with full feedback.
- Level Intermediate
- Questions 12
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Sample system design – api versioning interview questions
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Why version an API?
What a strong answer includes
Allows changes without breaking clients.
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What is URL versioning?
What a strong answer includes
/v1/resource.
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What is header versioning?
What a strong answer includes
Version in Accept or custom header.
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What are trade-offs of URL versioning?
What a strong answer includes
Simple but pollutes URLs.
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How do you deprecate an old version?
What a strong answer includes
Announces timeline and sunset.
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How long should you support old versions?
What a strong answer includes
Based on client adoption.