API Drift

title: "API Drift" seoTitle: "API Drift | Appendix" @description: "What is API Drift?" metaKeywords: "API Drift, Auto Version Control" author: "Scott Wyatt" date: "2022-01-05" lastmod: "2022-02-02" published: true category: "term" parent_category: "home" img: "/images/no_img.png" tags: - term

API Drift is when underlying API processes change, but not all the consumers of that API do. This requires development teams to perform costly maintenance of multiple API versions at once until they can successfully sunset an API or function. This is one of the leading causes of Technical Debt.