Testing Microservices: A Sane Approach Pre-Production & In Production

In this talk, Cindy Sridharan discusses her thoughts on testing microservices in a more sane and efficient manner. She criticizes the industry's tendency to create incredibly complex systems for testing microservices, arguing that it contradicts the main purpose of using microservices - enabling teams to develop, deploy, and scale independently. Instead, Sridharan proposes thinking about testing as a spectrum rather than just something done during code writing or pre-production testing. She emphasizes the importance of coding for debugging, understanding operational semantics, and considering the boundaries between abstractions when building software. Additionally, she suggests that massive integration tests are an anti-pattern and proposes integrating with production environments to test single services.