Expert Talk: Cloud Chaos & How Contract Tests Can Help • Holly Cummins & Kevlin Henney

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2022 for GOTO Unscripted. gotopia.tech (https://gotopia.tech) Read the full transcription of this interview here (https://gotopia.tech/articles/expert-talk-cloud-chaos-how-contract-tests-can-help) Holly Cummins (https://twitter.com/holly_cummins) - Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus Team Kevlin Henney (https://twitter.com/kevlinhenney) - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer DESCRIPTION Today cloud native and cloud transformation are more than buzzwords. However, most companies and development teams have not yet surpassed all the hurdles that come with moving to the cloud. Holly Cummins and Kevlin Henney dismantle why many organizations think by adopting microservices to their cloud strategy, they are ‘doing cloud right’ and how ‘Contract Testing (https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ContractTest.html) ’ can help to reduce the risks of microservices deployments. RECOMMENDED BOOKS Holly Cummins & Timothy Ward • Enterprise OSGi in Action (https://amzn.to/3rn2POB) Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know (https://amzn.to/3kiTwJJ) Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know (https://amzn.to/2Yahf9U) Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know (https://amzn.to/3pZuHsQ) Pini Reznik, Jamie Dobson & Michelle Gienow • Cloud Native Transformation (https://amzn.to/3LTMcDL) John Arundel & Justin Domingus • Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes (https://amzn.to/3hKZvI5) Kasun Indrasiri & Sriskandarajah Suhothayan • Design Patterns for Cloud Native Applications (https://amzn.to/3yCFxWE) Alexander Raul • Cloud Native with Kubernetes (https://amzn.to/3yw9ckc) Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com) Twitter (https://twitter.com/GOTOcon) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/goto_con) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto-) Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences) CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.tech (https://gotopia.tech) SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL (https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1) - new videos posted daily!