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Nov 24, 2021 · Backend Development

API Versioning Strategies and Backend Architecture Evolution in Vivo App Store

The article recounts how Vivo’s App Store backend evolved from a monolith to a service‑cluster architecture while handling millions of daily users by adopting three API versioning strategies—no version, point‑to‑point, and compatible versioning—and progressively refactoring interfaces and services to maintain backward compatibility and improve stability, performance, and maintainability.