Tag: Azure

A consumer-driven contract test lets the team that *calls* an API write down exactly what it needs from that API (requests it sends, response fields it reads).

A service component test starts one real microservice (its real controllers, validation, business logic, EF Core mappings and messaging code) inside a test process, replaces everything *outside* the service boundary...

The Strangler Fig pattern replaces a legacy monolith gradually instead of rewriting it in one go.

A service mesh is an infrastructure layer that moves service-to-service networking concerns (mutual TLS, retries, timeouts, traffic routing, telemetry, authorization) out of your application code and into a fleet of...

A sidecar is a helper container that is deployed and scaled together with your application container, in the same pod (Kubernetes) or the same replica (Azure Container Apps).

A Service Deployment Platform is an orchestrator (in practice, usually Kubernetes) that takes a declared desired state, such as "run 3 copies of the Claims API at version 2.4", and continuously makes reality match it.