Systems model of API deprecation

In How should Stripe deprecate APIs?, the diagnosisdepends on the claim that deprecating APIs is a significant cause of customer churn.While there is internal data that can be used to correlate deprecation with churn,it’s also valuable to build a model to help us decide if we believe thatcorrelation and causation are aligned in this case.

In this chapter, we’ll cover:

What we learn from modeling API deprecation’s impact on user retentionDeveloping a system model using the lethain/systems p...