APIs: The Ugly
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APIs:The good, the bad, the ugly
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goto fail;
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• “Oops”Errors
Unstable
Caching
Versioning
Breaking Changes
Testing?
Testing
Ugly APIsDon’t follow conventions
Ugly APIsare not intentionally ugly
Ugly APIsare a result of communication problems
and therefore can be fixed
