What problem does it solve?
Prevents breaking behavior when APIs, schemas, events, configuration, and observable behavior evolve while old and new producers/consumers coexist during rollout and rollback scenarios.
Core Features & Use Cases
- End-to-end compatibility evaluation: Assesses compatibility across contract surfaces including structure, meaning, validation, defaults, and behavior.
- Bidirectional safety checks: Verifies both “old producer → new consumer” and “new producer → old consumer,” including rollback after mixed deployments.
- Breaking-change governance: Requires explicit mitigations for breaking changes via versioning, backward-compatible bridge, or expand-contract migration path with rollback safety.
- Rollout and deprecation discipline: Defines mixed-version behavior, rollout sequencing (expand before contract), and telemetry-gated deprecation/removal criteria.
Use case example: When adding a new request field or changing enum/validation rules for a public endpoint or event, use this capability to determine whether the change is safe, what mitigation is required, and how to sequence deployment to avoid data corruption and consumer failures.
Quick Start
Ask for a compatibility assessment by describing the proposed change, the affected contract surfaces, and the current and target versions, then request a rollout and rollback-safe migration plan.
