Typed clients
Articles on generated typed service clients: why hand-written microservice SDKs rot, how self-describing services replace them, and using clients as test seams.
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Stop hand-writing and maintaining your microservice clients
Every service you call needs a client, and hand-maintained clients drift out of sync with the services they talk to. Here's why that happens, how to make the client fall out of the service, and what the generated approach costs.
read →Cutting the boilerplate out of Node.js microservices
Most of a new service's first commit is ceremony — transport wiring, serialization, a client, CI, a Dockerfile. Here's where the boilerplate hides and how to stop writing it by hand.
read →Testing services that call each other
Integration tests that require every service and its infrastructure running are slow, flaky, and painful. Here's a layered approach that tests most of your logic without spinning up the world.
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