Speaker: Tom Akehurst
CTO and Co-Founder @WireMock, 20+ Years Building Enterprise Systems
Tom is a career software developer who’s spent over 20 years building enterprise systems, primarily as a backend Java/JVM developer but with dabblings in infrastructure/DevOps, web development and performance engineering. He’s spent more than half of that time thinking about how to develop and test networked services more productively and is the creator of the WireMock open source API mocking tool. Lately he’s also the CTO and co-founder of WireMock, Inc.
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Session
Scaling API Independence: Mocking, Contract Testing & Observability in Large Microservices Environments
Microservices promise faster deployments and team autonomy. In reality, engineers are often blocked waiting for APIs, dealing with broken sandboxes, or wrangling test environments.
Date
Wednesday Apr 9 / 01:35PM BST ( 50 minutes )
Location
Whittle (3rd Fl.)
