Workshop: Testing Microservices: Contracts, Simulation and Observability
Testing microservices is challenging. Dividing a system into components naturally creates inter-service dependencies, and each service has its own performance and fault-tolerance characteristics that need to be validated during development and the QA process. Join this one day workshop and learn the theory, techniques and practices needed to overcome this challenge.
- Introduction to the challenges of testing distributed microservice systems
- Learn how to isolate tests within a complex microservice ecosystem
- Hands-on: Introduction to consumer-driven contract testing using Pact
- Explore how API simulation can be used for testing work undertaken during dev/ops, legacy system and high-volume load testing
- Implementing fault-injection testing to validate nonfunctional requirements in development and QA
- Hands-on: Working with API simulation (modern service virtualisation) using Hoverfly
- An introduction and discussion of the need for continually validating microservice systems running in production, both through observability and chaos engineering
Tracks
Monday, 4 April
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Hard-earned lessons from the names you know on scalability, reliability, security & performance.
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Innovations in ML Systems
Discover how to operationalize machine learning applications that are scalable, secure, interpretable.
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Developer Enablement - The Secret Weapon
How to supercharge developer productivity and happiness.
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Performance & Mechanical Sympathy
Wrangling computer architectures to achieve your performance goals.
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Current Trends in Frontends
Emerging frameworks and tools for web & mobile frontends.
Tuesday, 5 April
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Building and Evolving APIs
How would you design and implement your APIs if you were starting today?
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Staff-Plus Engineer Path
What are the skills you need to develop if you want to stay on the technical track to technical lead, staff, or principal? What will it take to thrive in this type of role?
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Debug, Analyze & Optimise... in Production!
Learn how to make the most out of your observability.
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Resilient Architectures
Building systems that can handle failures.
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Modern Java
New, shiny, and proven – making your Java life better.
Wednesday, 6 April
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WebAssembly & Modern Systems Programming Languages
Writing efficient code with modern systems languages like Rust and WebAssembly
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Effective Microservices: What It Takes to Get the Most Out of This Approach
Patterns for building, organizing, observing & operating microservices in the real world.
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Modern Data Pipelines & DataMesh
Learn about emerging solutions for creating modern data pipelines for common data challenges.
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Optimising for Speed & Flow
Discover processes, practices & organizational structures that can help us build & release faster.
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Enterprise Blockchain
Real-world examples and case studies on blockchain, DeFi, Web3, and more.