Dynamic Mocking for Event-Driven APIs: A Cloud Native Approa... Harshvardhan Parmar & Anushka Saxena

This talk focuses on the challenges of mocking event-driven APIs compared to traditional REST endpoints, particularly in asynchronous architectures utilizing Kafka, MQTT, or AMQP. The speakers, Harshvardhan Parmar from YosemiteCrew and Anushka Saxena from Google, share strategies for implementing dynamic mocks that act as real event producers and consumers to enhance developer productivity. They demonstrate how to leverage Kubernetes-native tooling to automatically generate and deploy mocks from AsyncAPI contracts while simulating message streams. The session covers managing dynamic mocks, orchestrating them with Microcks, and ensuring that mock behavior remains accurate as schemas and topics change.