Microservices

Here is the link to my #Dockerccon2020 talk "Monolithic to Microservices + Docker = SDLC on Steroids!" 

Adoption of microservices have changed the way we build software. It's a slim down version of SOA and impacts all areas of SDLC. A successful adoption will require mindset change of how we think, design, test, build, deploy and monitor our products. In this post, I want to discuss Testing methodology which took a 180 degree turn for me. Conventional testing pyramid implies that Unit tests are the most important form of tests. It carries the heaviest weightage. Unit test identifies a small unit of code and test it with combination of parameters. Unit tests are then followed by Service tests. Service tests are the API tests for your service. Usually it consist of a test-suite that includes spinning up the service under test and all its dependencies. A test client can call service API with different inputs and validate that the service is working as expected. At the top of the pyramid are the UI and E2E tests. A typical testing pyramid looks something like: This pyramid makes ...