Cloud Native Computing Switzerland – Fédéral Edition Basel

The Cloud Native Computing Switzerland Meetup goes places! We're starting a new initiative of hosting CNC CH meetups in various cities of Switzerland, to meet and learn from Cloud Native experts all over the country.

The first of these events will happen in Basel, at the Helvetia HVC LAB, on June 29th at 16:00 CEST. Join us!

Location
HVC LAB Basel
St. Alban-Tal 39
4052 Basel

Time
Thursday, June 29th, 2023 – 16:00 to 18:30 CEST

How to get there
From Basel SBB: 15 minutes walk through the city and along the Rhine or in 5 minutes with Tram 1 and hop off at "Kunstmuseum", or tram 3 to "St. Alban-Tor", tram 8 to "Aeschenplatz", and tram 14 to "Hardstrasse". The HVC LAB Basel is just a short walk away from each of these stations.

Agenda

1. Session: Experiences from building a Data Mesh on Kafka
2. Session: Deploying Kafka (or Redis or PostgreSQL or…) with AppCat
3. Session: WireMock8s. Mocking your APIs in Kubernetes

Session 1: Experiences from building a Data Mesh on Kafka
Daniel Maier, Johannes Mangold, Thomas Stuber – Helvetia

The data mesh paradigm has taken strong interest in the community. At Helvetia, the data mesh enables the delivery of modeled business data objects as data products from various applications in near real-time. It fosters a data-driven organization. In this talk and discussion, we will share our hands-on experiences from building a data mesh on Kafka, Kafka Stream APIs and Microservices.

Session 2: Deploying Kafka (or Redis or PostgreSQL or…) with AppCat
Adrian Kosmaczewski, Developer Relations at VSHN

The VSHN Application Catalog or AppCat is a Cloud Native marketplace which offers services from Cloud Service Providers like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Aiven.io, Exoscale or cloudscale.ch, as well as managed services from VSHN. In this session, you will learn what it is, how it works, and how to use it.

Session 3: WireMock8s. Mocking your APIs in Kubernetes
Oleg Nenashev

Distributed and microservice architectures are all about APIs these days, whether you use gRPC, REST API, Websockets or any other interface. There are tools for integration testing that involve API providers, including mocking them based on OpenAPI specifications. There are even Kubernetes native tools like Microcks that are scalable and provide valuable features and observability out of the box. More classic tools, including my favorite WireMock, are available on Kubernetes too.
If you’ve ever developed for JVM or .NET stacks, most likely you’ve heard about WireMock. It is a popular open-source tool and framework for API mock testing, with over 5 million downloads per month. It has implementations and adapters for many languages.
In this talk, I will focus on using WireMock for testing Cloud Native applications in Kubernetes, including using it for common continuous delivery and deployment use-cases. We will see how to use WireMock as a standalone deployment, or as a part of Argo CD and Tekton pipelines. I’ll also show how these approaches can be integrated with WireMock Cloud for those who want to do distributed testing and chaos engineering.

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Helvetia Versicherungen is sponsoring the event location and the "Apéro" after the event.

The event will be recorded and made available later on VSHN's YouTube channel: https://vshn.tv – subscribe to be notified of updates!

We expect all participants to abide by VSHN's Conference Code of Conduct: https://www.vshn.ch/en/code-of-conduct/

If you would like to share your cloud-native projects in the CNC Switzerland meetup events, just send us your talk suggestion here: https://cnc-meetup.ch – we look forward to hearing from you.