Practical Microservices

What You’ve Done So Far

In this chapter you wrote some tests for the pieces of Video Tutorials that we’ve done as part of this book. You’ve learned that this architecture makes testing simpler because it doesn’t introduce disparity between how things run in test and how they run in production. You also learned that not all testing has to be automated and that with proper tools, you can bring human eyes to your testing efforts.

You also got exposed to the idea that monitoring in production can be a more cost-effective way of verifying system integrity, and we mentioned how we could have something observing registrations and timing out if it does not see the process complete in a reasonable amount of time. Can you work through how you might write ...