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Your company provides a recommendation engine for retail customers. Retail customers use your API to submit a user ID, and in return, they receive a list of personalized recommendations for that user. You maintain the API lifecycle and need to ensure stability for your customers whenever there are backward-incompatible changes to the API. Following Google-recommended practices for handling such changes is essential. What should you do?
Explanation:
The correct answer is C. Google's recommended practice for handling backward-incompatible changes to an API is to use a versioning strategy that increases the version number with every backward-incompatible change. This approach ensures that existing user code does not suddenly break when updates are made to the API. It allows users to continue using the old version while they transition to the new one, ensuring stability and compatibility. More information can be found in Google's API design guidelines: https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/versioning.