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1 month 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.
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2 months ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
thenewstack.io | Anirudh Ramanathan
Why Mocks Fail: Real-Environment Testing for Microservices sponsor-signadot,sponsored-post-contributed, Image from Lightspring on Shutterstock. “Despite all our unit and integration tests passing, we’re seeing a lot of broken flows in staging.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Anirudh Ramanathan |Gorkem Ercan |Manish Kapur |Jonathan Ellis
When doing end-to-end or acceptance testing, there are many ways to allow developers to experiment in well-isolated environments. Asynchronous architectures present a different set of challenges without a single set of best practices for replication and testing, which makes implementing a testing solution more complex.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Anirudh Ramanathan |Luis Ceze |Christina Lin |Loraine Lawson
In cloud native environments, asynchronous architectures are pivotal for decoupling services, enhancing scalability and bolstering system reliability. A message queue forms the basis of an asynchronous architecture, and you can choose one from myriad options ranging from open source tools like Kafka and RabbitMQ to managed systems like Google Cloud Pub/Sub and AWS SQS. However, testing queued asynchronous workflows presents unique challenges.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
medium.com | Anirudh Ramanathan
The past year has been challenging for UX research, with UX teams consolidating, industries slowing in UX hiring, and UX generalist roles taking precedence over more specialized roles within design such as UX research. I think the time has come to have an honest conversation about UX research, the value it provides, and how it needs to evolve to survive in the future, and, more importantly, how UX researchers need to evolve to support this new reality.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Anirudh Ramanathan |Grace Ewura-Esi |Kumar Goswami |Alex Williams
With microservices, each team is dealing with smaller pieces of the application at a time, modularizing development and operational complexity. On the flip side, however, it has created a need to validate and test that all the pieces are working well together. This need has given rise to many new classes of solutions in the past couple of years — ephemeral environments, on-demand environments, preview environments, etc.
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Aug 12, 2023 | 
medium.com | Anirudh Ramanathan
Buying a home in 2023 is incredibly difficult especially for many living in large cities. As our society spends more time and effort to address this issue, the situation continues to worsen. This phenomenon isn't just unique to the United States but also is increasing worldwide, with countries like Australia, New Zealand, UK, Canada, and more in even worse housing crises.
