Wiremock is a wonderful tool for mocking external dependencies for testing. I often swap out the external dependencies/services of an application with wiremock during the application load test. Wiremock provides a nice recording/snapshotting feature to capture live flows and create stubs from them. It simplifies the effort to create stubs…

Docker/Containers have become the de facto standard for building and deploying applications. The isolation, portability and easy scaling capabilities of containers make them the popular choice for app deployments. However, containers are not only for application deployments but can also be for local development. They can solve many developer issues…