Microservices on Pi Stack

Pact vs Specmatic vs Spring Cloud Contract: Self-Hosted Contract Testing Guide 2026

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Microservices architectures introduce a fundamental challenge: how do you verify that services communicate correctly without running expensive, slow integration tests against every dependent system? Contract testing solves this problem by defining and validating the “contract” between a consumer and a provider independently, allowing teams to test in isolation while catching breaking changes before they reach production.

Best Self-Hosted Workflow Engines: Temporal vs Camunda vs Flowable 2026

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Managing complex business processes and long-running microservice workflows is one of the hardest problems in modern software architecture. When you need guarantees around durability, retries, and state management, a purpose-built workflow engine makes the difference between a fragile system held together by cron jobs and message queues, and a reliable platform that recovers gracefully from failures.

Self-Hosted API Gateway: Apache APISIX vs Kong vs Tyk — Complete Guide 2026

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

If you are running microservices, exposing internal APIs to external consumers, or building a platform that third-party developers integrate with, an API gateway is no longer optional — it is essential. Commercial cloud gateways charge per million requests, lock you into a vendor ecosystem, and add latency by routing your traffic through their infrastructure.