FunTester
FunTester
Dec 17, 2025 · Backend Development

How Contract Testing with Pact Prevents API Breakages in Microservices

This article explains why traditional unit and integration tests miss cross‑team API mismatches in microservices, introduces contract testing with the Pact framework, shows consumer and provider test implementations, describes using a Pact Broker, and offers production‑grade strategies and best‑practice recommendations.

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How Contract Testing with Pact Prevents API Breakages in Microservices
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Feb 15, 2022 · Backend Development

What’s New in Elasticsearch 8.0? Key Features, Security, and API Changes

Elasticsearch 8.0 introduces major updates including 7.x REST API compatibility headers, default-enabled security with enrollment tokens, protected system indices, a preview KNN search API, storage‑saving field encodings, faster geo indexing, and numerous deprecations and enhancements across aggregations, authentication, cluster coordination, and packaging.

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What’s New in Elasticsearch 8.0? Key Features, Security, and API Changes