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> Imagine the most annoying possible client of our microservice. Suppose they want a new field, and they insist that it be named a certain way.

Then I tell the client that I sent him the API specification 2 months ago. If he isn't happy with it, he can write a wrapper himself.

Of course, I could also change the API. Whether or not I do that depends on 4 factors in that order:

0) Do I have the time and resources to do so?

1) How important is the client?

2) How much does he pay me to do the change?

3) Exactly how annoying is the client?



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