Stop breaking your APIs every time you make a change.
Learn the 4 API versioning strategies in Spring Boot — and which one you should actually use.
In this video, you’ll understand how to safely evolve your APIs without breaking existing clients.
We cover:
✅ Path Versioning (/v1/users)
✅ Query Parameter Versioning (?version=1)
✅ Header Versioning (X-API-VERSION)
✅ Media Type Versioning (Accept header)
APIs change. Clients don’t update instantly.
If you don’t version your APIs correctly:
❌ You break production apps
❌ You lose user trust
❌ You create long-term technical debt
This video helps you avoid all of that.
00:00 Intro
00:55 The Core Problem
01:32 What is API Versioning
02:00 Path Versioning
03:35 Query Parameter Versioning
04:48 Header Versioning
05:31 Media Type Versioning
06:40 Recap
Which versioning strategy are you using right now?
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