Pact tests: how we split up the monolithic deploy
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Company replaces big‑bang staging with consumer‑driven contract testing using Pact, Avro for Kafka, and a schema registry, plus a Pact broker and CI gates. Services publish pacts, providers verify against master/dev/stage/prod versions, and the broker answers can i deploy before each deploy. Result: phased rollout to pods, automatic gates, releases drop from weekly multi‑hour events to commit‑to‑prod in about 30 minutes. Key tradeoffs: more CI complexity and cross‑team collaboration, but clear compatibility checks.
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