Testcontainers to Reduce Developer Frustration

Nov 8, 2023

Eli Aleyner talks about the issues with shifting left and how to reduce developer frustration with Testcontainers. They discuss the importance of developer testing, the evolution of CI, CD, and testing, creating AtomicGR, the concept of shifting testing left, and the advantages and adoption of test containers.

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

The Importance of Developer Testing and the Evolution of CI, CD, and Testing

02:15 • 3min

Creating AtomicGR and the Importance of Faster Feedback in Software Development

05:03 • 3min

Shifting Testing Left with Test Containers

08:02 • 11min

Advantages and Adoption of Test Containers

18:57 • 11min

Eli Aleyner (@ealeyner, Co-founder at @AtomicJarInc) talks about the issues with shifting left and how to reduce developer frustration with Testcontainers.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to create AtomicJar

Topic 2 - Let’s start at the beginning. We hear more and more about shifting everything left. In this case we are talking about potentially shifting testing left. What problem are we trying to solve and everything comes at a cost, what are the tradeoffs?

Topic 3 - We hear all the time that adoption of changes to a development practice is part culture and part technology. What is the hook that gets folks interested in investing time and resources into better testing practices?

Topic 4 - Are the tests integrated into the code? How seamless is this into existing CI/CD pipelines or an organization's DevOps practice on average?

Topic 5 - From a business perspective, how are the advantages typically measured? More deployments, less defects, etc

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about the OSS project Testcontainers a bit. What is it? How did it come about? How are folks using this concept of throwaway, lightweight instances of databases, message brokers, and web browsers, for instance. Is this all in Docker containers?

Topic 7 - There’s also testing in the cloud with a SaaS service (Testcontiners Cloud). What is the origin story behind this and how are folks using it today? Is this a replacement for say Docker Desktop?

Topic 8 - For those out there that are interested? How would they get started?

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