How to Handle Breaking Changes for API and Event Schemas

Several years ago while designing APIs for an ecommerce company, I discovered the importance of API versioning. So I wrote about it in a freeCodeCamp [https://www.freecodecamp.org/news] article entitled How to Version a REST API [/news/how-to-version-a-rest-api/]. Now I find myself designing event schemas for sending messages across a distributed system.