# Testing Microservices, the Sane Way  ## Metadata - Author: [[Cindy Sridharan]] - Full Title: Testing Microservices, the Sane Way - Category: #articles - Source: medium - Last Highlighted: 2024-10-30 10:08:51.873459+00:00 - URL: https://medium.com/p/9bb31d158c16 ## Highlights - … asking to boot a cloud on a dev machine is equivalent to becoming multi-substrate, supporting more than one cloud provider, but one of them is the worst you’ve ever seen (a single laptop) - The writing and running of tests is not a goal in and of itself — EVER. We do it to get some benefit for our team, or the business. If you can find a more efficient way to get those benefits that works for your team & larger org, you should absolutely take it. Because your competitor probably is.