12–14 May 2027 · Moscone West, San Francisco, CADevFlow Conf 2027

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Developer ExperienceKeynote, 45 min

The Hidden Costs of API Design

Wednesday 12 May, 9:30-10:00 · Room 2B

Frankie Lindqvist, Elliot Ekström

Backward compatibility sounds simple until your third breaking change in a year quietly loses a partner integration. This talk covers a versioning strategy, a deprecation timeline your consumers can actually plan around, and the contract tests that catch drift before it ships. You'll leave with a checklist for reviewing API changes before they leave code review.

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