Consumer Driven Contract Testing (CDCT) has become essential in the world of microservices to ensure seamless communication between services without causing disruptions. It allows teams to define and verify contracts that specify how services should interact, ensuring compatibility and preventing integration issues. Two prominent tools for implementing CDCT are Spring Cloud Contract and PactFlow, each offering unique features and capabilities. In this blog post, we’ll explore and compare these two tools to help you choose the right one for your project.

In today’s cloud-native world, enterprise applications often span multiple environments and platforms. This post explores how to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data in a hybrid cloud architecture, focusing on an Angular frontend hosted on Azure and a Spring Boot REST API hosted on AWS/Azure. We’ll delve into theoretical concepts and chosen practical approaches to secure these interactions.

The Saga pattern is a design pattern used to manage distributed transactions in microservices architectures. It ensures that a series of operations (which form a transaction) across multiple services are completed successfully, and if any operation fails, it ensures that the system can be rolled back to a consistent state. This is particularly important in a microservices environment where traditional two-phase commit (2PC) transactions are not feasible due to their complexity and performance overhead.

In a distributed microservice ecosystem, several other design patterns can be applied to address various challenges such as communication, data consistency, fault tolerance, and service discovery. Here are some of the key patterns:

Cloud migration strategies encompass various approaches to moving applications, data, and workloads from on-premises environments to cloud infrastructures. Here’s a detailed list of the main cloud migration strategies, their purposes, and use cases: