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Beyond API Compatibility: Building a Tool to Measure the Blast Radius of Library Changes

By Roberto Perez Alcolea , Java Platform Team Quasar connects a proposed API change with observed references in consumer repositories, giving the producer evidence for a release decision At Netflix, shared Java libraries support applications developed across a large, independently evolving repository ecosystem. A library change begins in one repository, but its impact can reach many others. Producers can see the API…

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