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Deactivating an API, one step at a time

How do you make sure all consumers stop using an API so you can safely deactivate it?

In addition to offering human-understandable communication, I asked the API producer to add the Deprecation HTTP header field to all responses. Additionally, I asked the producer to add the sunset HTTP header to every response so the consumers would also receive machine-readable information. In my case, it required "deprovisioning" the server instances that were running the API, the database holding its data, and removing all the information related to authorization.

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