Automated Integration Testing in a Microservices World.

Everyone's dabbling with microservices these days. It turns out that writing distributed applications are difficult. They offer advantages to be sure. However, there is no free lunch. One of the difficulties is automated integration testing. That is, testing a microservice with all the external resources it needs including any other services it calls, the databases it uses, any queues it uses. Just setting up and maintaining these resources can be a daunting task that often takes special...