When people think of self-discipline, they often imagine it as a forceful, willpower-driven effort to push through tasks they don’t want to do. But the truth is, self-discipline isn’t about forcing yourself into action—it’s about learning how to manage your inner world, particularly the part of you that resists discipline. In the book Self-Discipline in 10 Days: How to Go from Thinking to Doing, Theodore Bryant explains that self-discipline is a skill you can develop with the right strategies, and this blog post will break down the core ideas from the book in a way that’s easy to understand and apply.

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In a large organization where multiple teams are developing microservices using Spring Boot, maintaining seamless interactions between services can be challenging. Data synchronization can be expensive, and ensuring that changes in one service do not break others is critical. Implementing Consumer Driven Contract Testing (CDCT) can address these challenges by providing a structured approach to API interaction testing, increasing confidence in production deployments, and offering flexibility for developers in unit and integration testing.

Consumer Driven Contract Testing (CDCT) is an effective approach for ensuring that microservices can communicate with each other seamlessly. This testing methodology focuses on defining the interactions between services from the consumer’s perspective, thereby ensuring that changes in the provider do not break the consumer’s functionality.