Overview
What this challenge is about.
Design a Versioning Strategy for a Public REST API. Advanced challenge in design. Designing real products under real constraints, earn a blockchain-verified ...
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Recommend a public-API versioning strategy and produce a 12-month migration plan that protects 4,500 SMB customers across 14 endpoints.
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
- Compare URI, header, and evolution-only versioning honestly
- Audit an existing OpenAPI surface for breaking-change patterns
- Design a migration plan that respects existing customer code
- Write an RFC that earns engineering and partner sign-off
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
API Design and GraphQL
Master · Software Engineering
Strong alignment
This challenge maps to API Design and GraphQL at the Master level. It sharpens the same practical skills your coursework expects — but in a real industry context with actual constraints and deliverables.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Api Design
Design RESTful and GraphQL APIs that are intuitive, consistent, and well-documented.
- Rest
Apply rest to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Api Versioning
Apply api versioning to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Openapi
Apply openapi to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Stakeholder Communication
Apply stakeholder communication to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Documentation
Apply documentation 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: