rdschneider

If you’re going to be in the Bay Area in October, I invite you to join me at API World in San Jose. I’ll be giving a talk about applying hard-earned best practices from SOA and Web services to the exciting new world of microservices.

Here’s the abstract of what I’ll be presenting:

Microservices represent the next logical step in the evolution of distributed computing, rather than a complete break with the past. When implementing this type of fresh approach, it can be tempting to come up with an entirely new set of procedures for carrying out important tasks. While this is certainly helpful when these responsibilities haven‚ been encountered before, it‚ wise to avoid reinventing the wheel whenever possible.Fortunately, carrying out the vital job of ensuring that your microservices are highly reliable and performant can profit from well-established best practices and patterns for testing mission-critical distributed software assets. These have been utilized for more than 10 years, and have helped make the API era possible. All of these proven techniques can be invaluable to microservices designers, developers, and testers.In this thought-provoking event, we cover a number of practical, easily-applied guidelines that will serve you well as you develop and expand your microservices portfolio. These will include:

• Using automation to assist in attaining 100% code testing coverage
• Going beyond traditional unit testing to incorporate anticipated composition and orchestration into your quality assurance process
• Employing statistically significant quantities of meaningful data to fuel your tests
• Subjecting your microservices to realistic load volumes and geographically distributed consumers-
• Organizing and evolving your microservices testing inventory via effective governance.

You can learn more here.