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Demystifying API Lifecycle: Unpacking Essential Roles, Responsibilities and Their Challengesย
APIs are the invisible glue of modern digital ecosystems – powering microservices, enabling integrations, and accelerating innovation. But building and scaling successful APIs takes more than clean code, good documentation and enterprise governance. It requires a deep understanding of the API lifecycle from both provider …
Contract-Driven Development โ a Real-World Adoption Journey
The story of how a large financial services company adopted contract-driven development. Covering the situation on the ground before adoption and initial skepticism, and how we were able to influence change by demonstrating value and ...
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[Contract Driven Development – Post 2] Integration Hell
Integration Tests require the actual components/microservices to be deployed to a common environment. Because of this integration tests are able to verify the connections between these microservices which was never verified until this point since ...
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[Contract Driven Development – Post 1] – The trouble with API mocks and stubs
Over the last 6-7 years, I’ve studied several microservices architecture transformations. What I’ve realised is a lot of them are not bearing the returns the stakeholders were expecting. Many organisations were expecting that they would ...
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Microservices Integration Done Right Using Contract-Driven Development
Contract Driven Development helps us leverage API specifications as executable contracts using Specmatic to shift left the identification of compatibility issues thereby eliminating / reducing the need for integration tests.
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