Stick to the Rules - Consumer-Driven Contracts

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Consumer-Driven Contracts applies TDD principles to APIs: it treats consumers as the creators of API requirements to drive API design. The talk covers using this approach for REST and microservices, showing how to test service contracts to reduce production failures from incompatible messages and to make APIs more user-friendly.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:25Speaker background
3. 2:28Consumer-Driven Contracts
4. 4:17Classic API issues
5. 5:43How CDC works
6. 8:16Consumer-side contract process
7. 11:30Server-side contract process
8. 14:00Technologies used
9. 16:54Live coding: consumer
10. 27:33Live coding: server
11. 33:12CDC benefits
12. 37:43Challenges and limits
13. 40:33Tools and resources
14. 41:35Q&A

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