- The purpose of software versioning is twofold. First, it allows software engineers to validate whether an external dependency can be safely upgraded without the risk of introducing issues to production systems. Secondly, being able to explicitly reference required software dependencies via their versions is a prerequisite for implementing the concept of repeatable builds.
- A semantic version is a string that satisfies the following format: MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH:
- The major component is incremented when a breaking change is introduced to the software
- The minor component is incremented when new functionality is introduced to the software in a backward-compatible way
- The patch version is incremented when a backward-compatible fix is applied to the code
- In the first case, we would increment the minor version as the new API does not break backward compatibility. In the second...
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Achilleas Anagnostopoulos has been writing code in a multitude of programming languages since the mid 90s. His main interest lies in building scalable, microservice-based distributed systems where components are interconnected via gRPC or message queues. Achilleas has over 4 years of experience building production-grade systems using Go and occasionally enjoys pushing the language to its limits through his experimental gopher-os project: a 64-bit kernel written entirely in Go. He is currently a member of the Juju team at Canonical, contributing to one of the largest open source Go code bases in existence.
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Achilleas Anagnostopoulos has been writing code in a multitude of programming languages since the mid 90s. His main interest lies in building scalable, microservice-based distributed systems where components are interconnected via gRPC or message queues. Achilleas has over 4 years of experience building production-grade systems using Go and occasionally enjoys pushing the language to its limits through his experimental gopher-os project: a 64-bit kernel written entirely in Go. He is currently a member of the Juju team at Canonical, contributing to one of the largest open source Go code bases in existence.
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