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Scaling API Independence: Akehurst on Mocking, Contract Testing, and Observability
At QCon London 2025, Tom Akehurst spotlighted the path to developer autonomy in microservices through "Scaling API Independence." He emphasized advanced mocking, contract testing, and observability to combat API dependencies. Akehurst showcased how these strategies, enhanced by AI, streamline development, boost productivity, and ensure integration confidence amidst complexity.
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WireMock Spring Boot Simplifies the WireMock Configuration for Spring Boot Applications
WireMock, a flexible tool for building API mocks, and the new WireMock Spring Boot simplify the WireMock configuration for JUnit-based integration tests in Spring Boot applications.
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GitHub's OpenAPI Spec Open-Sourced in Beta
GitHub has open sourced an OpenAPI description of its API. Aimed to allow developers to discover the API capabilities first-hand, GitHub's OpenAPI also enables the programmatic creation of mock servers, test suites, and language bindings.
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Rewriting Dropbox Sync with Confidence Thanks to a Robust Test Strategy
Over the last few years, Dropbox engineers have rewritten their client-side sync engine from scratch. This would not have been possible had they not defined a clear testing strategy to allow them to build and ship the new engine through a quick release cycle, writes Dropbox engineer Isaac Goldberg.
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Netflix Announces Polly.JS HTTP Interaction Library
Netflix recently announced the release of Polly.JS, an open source library for recording, replaying and stubbing HTTP interactions.