API Versioning Strategies: URL Path, Query Params, and Headers Compared

The article compares three API versioning approaches: URL path, query parameter, and request header.

It explains how each method works in practice and weighs their pros and cons for routing, debugging, and developer experience.

For public APIs, it recommends URL path versioning; for internal APIs, it favors header-based versioning.

It also notes that query- and header-based schemes can create cache, CDN, and usability pitfalls if not handled carefully.