blatherings on software…
Tracer Bullet Testing or Synthetic Transactions or Synthetic Monitoring is a way of testing your service/app in production where its supposed to run but without affecting users/clients/external systems.
Many articles talk about the what of this style but in my view, not enough talk about the how. In this post, I am going to try and show one way to actually structure the solution to be more in line with the hexagonal ports and adapters style.
…the whole business process can be divided into smaller asynchronous sub-processes with each one feeding i.e. “piping” its output into the input of the subsequent process(es). At each stage some processing is done for e.g. data enriching, filtering etc and this processing generically is termed as a “filter”.
Seeing as micro-service architectures are all the rage these days, I decided to dip into it by building…
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