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      <title>Presentation: Scaling API Independence: Mocking, Contract Testing &amp; Observability in Large Microservices Environments</title>
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      <description>&lt;img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-mocking-observability/en/mediumimage/tom-akehurst-medium-1761731237098.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tom Akehurst explains strategies for overcoming microservice pain points like environment dependency and slow development. He advocates using realistic API simulation at scale, supported by contract testing , API observability, and GenAI integration. Learn to compose observations, simulations, and contracts to maximize confidence and reduce the toil of maintaining realistic, up-to-date mocks.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;i&gt;By Tom Akehurst&lt;/i&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Tom Akehurst</dc:creator>
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