# APIs & evolutions

2018-11-12

> If you keep these covenants with your creature, you’ll be a responsible creator deity. Your creature’s body can evolve over time, forever improving and adapting to changes in its environment, but without sudden changes the creature isn’t prepared for. If you maintain a library, keep these promises to your users, and you can innovate your library without breaking the code of the people who rely on you.

> API Evolution the Right Way (cache)

A lot of very good advices applied to Python. Something to consider when you are about to break an API. I am learning so much from taking a look at a lower level, there is beauty in Roll.

Actually, not in Roll itself but in the way it is being conceived.

Other articles in English: On caching links, Bushcraft retrospective, Into the Raft, Into the Bugs, Meritocracy crisis, The Seller, the Teacher and the Wise, Into the Good, Into the Mice, Into the Camp, Into the Wind, Into the Snow, Into the Cold, Async Python Frameworks, Distributed teams, Into the Wild, Without JavaScript, Inclusive Python, Micro-cultures and governance, Resilient Web and Tools, Bitcoin and energy, Team building, Inclusive developer, Cultural Intimacy, Tools and teams, Senior developer, Slow Data, Inclusive communities, Delivery and value(s), Collaboration debt, Communities and leadership, Specifications and APIs. Oh, and most of the 2018 thoughts.