Anirudh Ramanathan

3 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Anirudh Ramanathan

“Hey, don’t merge that yet, I still need to test with my service.” Sound familiar? Coordinating changes across microservices during feature development always starts simple. When your whole stack fits in a single repo or an EC2 box, it’s not a big deal. But fast-forward a bit, and you’re juggling 20, 40, maybe hundreds of services owned by different teams, moving on different timelines, and depending on each other in subtle, undocumented ways.

2 months ago | thenewstack.io | Anirudh Ramanathan

Microservice Integration Testing a Pain? Try Shadow Testing sponsor-signadot,sponsored-post-contributed, “Oh, yes,” a head of platform said sheepishly, “we used to have integration tests, but eventually no one wanted to maintain them, and they mostly started to fail. So we had to turn them off.”What started with the best intentions — to catch breaking changes early — became a maintenance burden as services evolved.

Feb 14, 2025 | thenewstack.io | Anirudh Ramanathan

If you’re using Istio or Linkerd, you’ve already solved one of the hardest parts of managing traffic in Kubernetes. But did you know you’re also 90% of the way to unlocking ephemeral environments? These lightweight, on-demand environments can transform how your team develops and tests applications — giving you faster iteration, safer deployments and better software quality. Why Ephemeral Environments MatterEphemeral environments offer immense benefits.

Feb 12, 2025 | thenewstack.io | Anirudh Ramanathan

Software testing is undergoing a major transformation with the rise of generative AI. While many are excited about AI’s ability to generate tests, this alone isn’t enough. Current approaches often assume that all types of testing — integration, end-to-end, unit — can be fully autogenerated because models can write code. But this falls short of supporting the next generation of resilient, complex software.

Feb 6, 2025 | thenewstack.io | Anirudh Ramanathan

The Staging Bottleneck: Microservices Testing in FinTech sponsor-signadot,sponsored-post-contributed, A leading FinTech company found that adding more ephemeral environments didn’t improve quality. The reason? Managing multiple high-fidelity setups introduced complexity, leading to inconsistencies and delays in testing.