Tired of wrestling with flaky dev environments and tangled microservices? In this InfoQ deep-dive, WireMock creator Tom Akehurst shows how the usual promises of decoupled services crash into reality—broken test rigs, interdependencies and snail-paced releases. The cure? Swap out full-blown environment spins for smart API mocking powered by solid observability, contract testing and realistic simulation, so you can ship value faster without the overhead.
Worried mocks won’t keep up? Tom tackles the big three objections—realism, effort and drift—by combining live observations, AI-driven mock generation and contract enforcement. He walks you through two workflows (consumer-provided contracts vs. traffic-derived specs), a hands-on demo catching API drift with WireMock, Optic and Prism, and teases the future of Arazzo workflows, eBPF-based tracing and service-mesh insights. End-to-end tests? Reserved for the real integration nightmares.
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