Change-Impact Analysis for a Cross-Service API Migration
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Change-Impact Analysis for a Cross-Service API Migration. Advanced challenge in design. Designing real products under real constraints, earn a blockchain-ver...
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Run change-impact analysis on a v2→v3 API migration spanning 23 consumers and design a 12-week coordination plan with measurable safety nets.
This is not a design exercise. It is the work a product designer does between a brief and a shipped interface. That distinction matters to every hiring manager who has seen candidates redesign Spotify's homepage and none who have worked under real product constraints.
When you finish, you will have something most graduates do not: a real-world deliverable, verified by Ewance, that you can show to a hiring manager and say "I did this. Here is the proof."
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Map cross-service API consumers from gateway logs + service catalog
- Predict failure surfaces from consumer-side static analysis
- Design a multi-mode migration path (parallel-run + dual-write + sunset)
- Coordinate a 12-week migration across 11 teams without it stalling
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Change Impact Analysis
Apply change impact analysis to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Api Migration
Apply api migration to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Parallel Run
Apply parallel run to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Dependency Analysis
Apply dependency analysis to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Coordination
Apply coordination to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Observability
Apply observability to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles: