Cloud Computing is the default today. I do believe the future is containers and multi-cloud solutions. However today I work a lot with AWS . There are specific endpoints such as S3, AutoScaling , Route53 and other that are among the ones I use more in my day to day work. AWS API is easy to use however not no easy to test. Distributed systems tend to be hard to test. Having quick feedback is very important for engineers. There is some kind of tasks that need to interact with AWS APIs like S3 for backups for instance. However, if you need to wait to deploy in AWS to test it because is basically impossible to test it locally then we have a problem. We need to be able to do end-2-end testing however while you are coding or doing some troubleshooting is important to do things faster. There are 2 specific projects that can help us with this task. TestContainers and LocalStack . Today I will show to use LocalStack and TestContainers together with JUnit in order to do unit tests m...
