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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>API Mocking and Testing | Microcks.io</title><link>https://microcks.io/</link><description>Recent content on API Mocking and Testing | Microcks.io</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-US</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://microcks.io/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>OpenAPI Conventions</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/artifacts/openapi-conventions/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/artifacts/openapi-conventions/</guid><description>Conventions In addition of schema information, Microcks uses OpenAPI Example Objects to produce working mocks and build test suite for validating your implementation.</description></item><item><title>Deployment topologies</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/explanations/deployment-topologies/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/explanations/deployment-topologies/</guid><description>Introduction We often get the question from people who are adopting Microcks on the deployment toplogy: Where to deploy it and which personas to target?</description></item><item><title>Container Images</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/container-images/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/container-images/</guid><description>Introduction Microcks components are distributed as OCI container images that can be executed using container runtimes such as Docker or Podman.</description></item><item><title>As a Docker Desktop Extension</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/installation/docker-desktop-extension/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/installation/docker-desktop-extension/</guid><description>This guide shows you how to install Microcks as a Docker Desktop Extension on your local machine.</description></item><item><title>Connecting to Microcks API</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/automation/api/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/automation/api/</guid><description>Overview This guide shows you how to authenticate to and how to use the Microcks API for better automation of tasks.</description></item><item><title>Enabling the AI Copilot</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/integration/ai-copilot/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/integration/ai-copilot/</guid><description>🪄 To Be Created
This is a new documentation page that has to be written as part of our Refactoring Effort.</description></item><item><title>Application Configuration</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/configuration/application-config/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/configuration/application-config/</guid><description>Overview This page aims to give you a comprehensive reference on the configuration properties used within Microcks.</description></item><item><title>What is Microcks?</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/overview/what-is-microcks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/overview/what-is-microcks/</guid><description>Microcks is a tool for mocking and testing your APIs and microservices.</description></item><item><title>Organizing Repository</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/administration/organizing-repository/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/administration/organizing-repository/</guid><description>Overview This guide walks through the different techniques for organinzing your API &amp;amp; Services repository content in Microcks.</description></item><item><title>Importing Services &amp; APIs</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/importing-content/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/importing-content/</guid><description>Overview This guide will show you and discuss the different options for importing Services and APIs into Microcks.</description></item><item><title>Managing Users</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/administration/users/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/administration/users/</guid><description>Overview This guide will show you how to use the Users Management capabilities of the Microcks Web UI.</description></item><item><title>Microcks' OpenAPI</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/apis/open-api/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/apis/open-api/</guid><description>As a tool focused on APIs, Microcks also offers its own API that allows you to query its datastore and control the import jobs and configuration objects.</description></item><item><title>Getting started</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/tutorials/getting-started/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/tutorials/getting-started/</guid><description>Quickstart In this tutorial, you will discover Microcks mocking features by re-using a simple REST API sample.</description></item><item><title>AsyncAPI Conventions</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/artifacts/asyncapi-conventions/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/artifacts/asyncapi-conventions/</guid><description>Conventions In addition of schema information, Microcks uses AsyncAPI Message Example Objects to produce example messages for mocking purpose.</description></item><item><title>Integrating with Microcks Hub</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/integration/microcks-hub/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/integration/microcks-hub/</guid><description>🪄 To Be Created
This is a new documentation page that has to be written as part of our Refactoring Effort.</description></item><item><title>Setting custom dispatcher</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/custom-dispatchers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/custom-dispatchers/</guid><description>🪄 To Be Created
This is a new documentation page that has to be written as part of our Refactoring Effort.</description></item><item><title>Using Microcks CLI</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/automation/cli/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/automation/cli/</guid><description>Overview This guide illustrates usage of microcks-cli, a command-line tool for interacting with Microcks APIs.</description></item><item><title>With Docker Compose</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/installation/docker-compose/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/installation/docker-compose/</guid><description>This guide shows you how to install and run Microcks using Docker Compose.</description></item><item><title>Main Concepts</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/overview/main-concepts/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/overview/main-concepts/</guid><description>Before diving in, it is useful to briefly introduce or recall concepts or terminology we frequently use in the documentation.</description></item><item><title>Microcks' AsyncAPI</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/apis/async-api/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/apis/async-api/</guid><description>As a tool focused on APIs and Events, Microcks also offers its own Events API that allows you subscribe to events produced by Microcks.</description></item><item><title>Security Configuration</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/configuration/security-config/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/configuration/security-config/</guid><description>Overview This page aims to give you a comprehensive reference on the configuration properties used within Microcks.</description></item><item><title>Kafka, Avro &amp; Schema Registry</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/async-protocols/avro-messaging/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/async-protocols/avro-messaging/</guid><description>Overview This guide shows you how to use Microcks for mocking and testing Avro encoding on top of Apache Kafka.</description></item><item><title>Architecture &amp; deployment options</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/explanations/deployment-options/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/explanations/deployment-options/</guid><description>Introduction Microcks is a modular cloud-native application that can be deployed using many different installation methods.</description></item><item><title>Getting started with Tests</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/tutorials/getting-started-tests/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/tutorials/getting-started-tests/</guid><description>Quickstart (continue) with Tests Now that you have finished the Getting started guide, you should have a Microcks installation up-and-running and filled with some samples from the Microcks repository.</description></item><item><title>Mock Templates</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/templates/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/templates/</guid><description>Introduction This page contains the comprehensive lists of variables and functions that can be used to genete dynamic mock content in Microcks.</description></item><item><title>Applying constraints to mocks</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/mocks-constraints/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/mocks-constraints/</guid><description>Overview Sometimes it may be required to specify additional constraints onto a mock operation.</description></item><item><title>Swagger Conventions</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/artifacts/swagger-conventions/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/artifacts/swagger-conventions/</guid><description>Microcks is supporting Swagger mocking and testing thanks to multi-artifacts support feature.</description></item><item><title>Configuring the Backstage Plugin</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/integration/backstage-plugin/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/integration/backstage-plugin/</guid><description>🪄 To Be Created
This is a new documentation page that has to be written as part of our Refactoring Effort.</description></item><item><title>With Podman Compose</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/installation/podman-compose/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/installation/podman-compose/</guid><description>This guide shows you how to install and run Microcks using Docker Compose.</description></item><item><title>Your 1st REST mock</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/tutorials/first-rest-mock/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/tutorials/first-rest-mock/</guid><description>Overview This tutorial is a step-by-step walkthrough on how to use OpenAPI v3 Specification to specify your mocks for your API.</description></item><item><title>Helm Chart Parameters</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/configuration/helm-chart-config/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/configuration/helm-chart-config/</guid><description>Introduction One easy way of installing Microcks is via a Helm Chart.</description></item><item><title>Using in GitHub Actions</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/automation/github-actions/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/automation/github-actions/</guid><description>Overview This guide shows you how to integrate Microcks into your Github Actions workflows.</description></item><item><title>MQTT Mocking &amp; Testing</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/async-protocols/mqtt-support/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/async-protocols/mqtt-support/</guid><description>Overview This guide shows you how to use the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol with Microcks.</description></item><item><title>Accessing secured Resources</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/administration/secrets/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/administration/secrets/</guid><description>Overview Quickly after your initial experience with Microcks, you&amp;rsquo;ll realize that it needs to access some of your private resources for smooth integration in your lifecycle.</description></item><item><title>Configuring stateful mocks</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/stateful-mocks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/stateful-mocks/</guid><description>Overview Microcks allows to specifiy dynamic mock content using expressions since the early days.</description></item><item><title>Alternatives</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/overview/alternatives/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/overview/alternatives/</guid><description>Comparison with alternatives is always a tough question 🤔</description></item><item><title>GraphQL Conventions</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/artifacts/graphql-conventions/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/artifacts/graphql-conventions/</guid><description>In order to use GraphQL in Microcks, you will need two artifacts for each API definition as explained in Multi-artifacts support:</description></item><item><title>On Kind with Helm</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/installation/kind-helm/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/installation/kind-helm/</guid><description>Overview This guide will walk you through the different steps of running a full Microcks installation on your laptop using Kind.</description></item><item><title>Your 1st GraphQL mock</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/tutorials/first-graphql-mock/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/tutorials/first-graphql-mock/</guid><description>Overview This tutorial is a step-by-step walkthrough on how to use GraphQL schemas to get mocks for your GraphQL API.</description></item><item><title>Your 1st gRPC mock</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/tutorials/first-grpc-mock/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/tutorials/first-grpc-mock/</guid><description>Overview This tutorial is a step-by-step walkthrough on how to use a gRPC / Protocol Buffers specification to get mocks for your gRPC Service.</description></item><item><title>Operator Configuration</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/configuration/operator-config/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/configuration/operator-config/</guid><description>Introduction Operators are next-gen installer, maintainer and life-cycle manager for Kubernetes native applications.</description></item><item><title>Test Parameters</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/test-endpoints/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/test-endpoints/</guid><description>Introduction From the page displaying basic information on your API or Service mocks, you have the ability to launch new tests against different endpoints that may be representing different environment into your development process.</description></item><item><title>RabbitMQ Mocking &amp; Testing</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/async-protocols/rabbitmq-support/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/async-protocols/rabbitmq-support/</guid><description>Overview This guide shows you how to use the RabbitMQ protocol with Microcks.</description></item><item><title>Snapshotting/restoring Repository</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/administration/snapshots/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/administration/snapshots/</guid><description>Overview This guide will teach you what are Microcks Snapshots and what are their use-case sweet spots.</description></item><item><title>gRPC Conventions</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/artifacts/grpc-conventions/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/artifacts/grpc-conventions/</guid><description>In order to use gRPC in Microcks, you will need two artifacts for each service definition as explained in Multi-artifacts support:</description></item><item><title>API Metadata Format</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/metadada/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/metadada/</guid><description>Introduction Some Microcks mocks specific metadata or properties cannot be fully deduced from common attributes coming from OpenAPI or AsyncAPI.</description></item><item><title>On Minikube with Helm</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/installation/minikube-helm/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/installation/minikube-helm/</guid><description>Overview This guide will walk you through the different steps of running a full Microcks installation on your laptop using Minikube.</description></item><item><title>Your 1st Soap mock</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/tutorials/first-soap-mock/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/tutorials/first-soap-mock/</guid><description>Overview This tutorial is a step-by-step walkthrough on how to use SoapUI projects to get mocks for your SOAP WebService.</description></item><item><title>NATS Mocking &amp; Testing</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/async-protocols/nats-support/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/async-protocols/nats-support/</guid><description>Overview This guide shows you how to use a NATS protocol with Microcks.</description></item><item><title>Generating Direct API</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/direct-api/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/direct-api/</guid><description>Overview Eventhough Microcks promotes a contract first approach for defining mocks, in real-life it may be difficult starting that way without a great maturity on API and Service contracts.</description></item><item><title>API Examples Format</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/examples/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/examples/</guid><description>Introduction APIExamples format is Microcks&amp;rsquo; own specification format for defining examples intented to be used by Microcks mocks.</description></item><item><title>Postman Conventions</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/artifacts/postman-conventions/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/artifacts/postman-conventions/</guid><description>Conventions In order to be correctly imported and understood by Microcks, your Postman Collection should follow a little set of reasonable conventions and best practices.</description></item><item><title>Developing with Testcontainers</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/developing-testcontainers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/developing-testcontainers/</guid><description>Overview This guide will provide you with pointers on how to embed Microcks into your unit tests with the help of Testcontainers.</description></item><item><title>Your 1st AsyncAPI on Kafka mock</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/tutorials/first-asyncapi-mock/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/tutorials/first-asyncapi-mock/</guid><description>🪄 To Be Created
This is a new tutorial page that has to be written as part of our Refactoring Effort.</description></item><item><title>Pub/Sub Mocking &amp; Testing</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/async-protocols/googlepubsub-support/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/async-protocols/googlepubsub-support/</guid><description>Overview This guide shows you how to use a Google Pub/Sub messaging service with Microcks.</description></item><item><title>Using in Jenkins Pipeline</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/automation/jenkins/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/automation/jenkins/</guid><description>Overview This guide illustrates how you can integrate the Microcks Jenkins plugin keep Microcks in-sync withe your API specifications and integrate tests stages within your Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.</description></item><item><title>SoapUI Conventions</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/artifacts/soapui-conventions/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/artifacts/soapui-conventions/</guid><description>Conventions In order to be correctly imported and understood by Microcks, your SoapUI project should follow a little set of reasonable conventions and best practices.</description></item><item><title>SQS/SNS Mocking &amp; Testing</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/async-protocols/aws-sqs-sns-support/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/usage/async-protocols/aws-sqs-sns-support/</guid><description>Overview This guide shows you how to use a Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS messaging services with Microcks.</description></item><item><title>Using in GitLab CI</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/automation/gitlab/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/automation/gitlab/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Http Archive Conventions</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/artifacts/har-conventions/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/references/artifacts/har-conventions/</guid><description>Conventions In order to be correctly imported and understood by Microcks, your HAR file should follow a little set of reasonable conventions and best practices.</description></item><item><title>Multi-artifacts support</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/explanations/multi-artifacts/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/explanations/multi-artifacts/</guid><description>Introduction Microcks can have multiple artifacts (one primary and many secondary) mapping to one API definition.</description></item><item><title>Connecting to Postman Workspaces</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/integration/postman-workspace/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/integration/postman-workspace/</guid><description>Overview Postman Workspaces are a common and effective way of organizing your team API work.</description></item><item><title>Dynamic mock content</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/explanations/dynamic-content/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/explanations/dynamic-content/</guid><description>Introduction Whilst we deeply think that &amp;ldquo;real-world&amp;rdquo; static values for request/response samples are crucial in order to fully understand the business usages and expectations of an API, we have to admit that it is more than often useful to introduce some kind of dynamically generated content for response.</description></item><item><title>Using in Tekton Pipeline</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/automation/tekton/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/automation/tekton/</guid><description>Overview This guide shows you how to integrate Microcks into your Tekton Pipelines.</description></item><item><title>On Kubernetes with Operator</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/installation/kubernetes-operator/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/installation/kubernetes-operator/</guid><description>TODO</description></item><item><title>Conformance testing</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/explanations/conformance-testing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/explanations/conformance-testing/</guid><description>Introduction It is likely you experienced the painful situation of deploying to production only to find out that an API or Services you integrate with has broken its contract.</description></item><item><title>Service accounts</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/explanations/service-account/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/explanations/service-account/</guid><description>Introduction Microcks is using OpenId Connect and OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens to secure its frontend and API access.</description></item><item><title>Dispatcher &amp; dispatching rules</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/explanations/dispatching/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/explanations/dispatching/</guid><description>Introduction In order to provide smart mocks, Microcks is using Dispatcher and Dispatching Rules to find the most appropriate response to return when receiving a request.</description></item><item><title>Adding external dependencies</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/installation/externals/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/guides/installation/externals/</guid><description>Overview This guide is a walkthrough, that exposes Microcks extension capabilities and explain how to leverage them.</description></item><item><title>Monitoring &amp; Observability</title><link>https://microcks.io/documentation/explanations/monitoring/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/documentation/explanations/monitoring/</guid><description>Introduction As a cloud-native application, we take great care of providing observability on what&amp;rsquo;s going on within a Microcks instance.</description></item><item><title>Announcing Testcontainers Modules 0.3</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/testcontainers-modules-0.3/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/testcontainers-modules-0.3/</guid><description>To start the 2025 Year fresh, we&amp;rsquo;re delighted to announce the release of the new series of our Testcontainers Modules 🧊!</description></item><item><title>Recap of an Amazing 2024, and ready to go for 2025!</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/recap-of-an-amazing-2024/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/recap-of-an-amazing-2024/</guid><description>As we wrap up 2024, we at Microcks want to express our gratitude to our adopters, sponsors, partners, and community members.</description></item><item><title>Revolutionizing API Strategy: Lombard Odier's Success Story with Microcks</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/lombard-odier-revolutionizing-api-strategy/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/lombard-odier-revolutionizing-api-strategy/</guid><description>Lombard Odier is a global wealth and asset manager. For over 225 years and through more than 40 financial crises, the Group has aligned itself with the long-term interests of private and institutional clients.</description></item><item><title>Microcks 1.10.0 release 🚀</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.10.0-release/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.10.0-release/</guid><description>We are excited to announce today the 1.10.0 release of Microcks, the CNCF&amp;rsquo;s open-source cloud-native tool for API Mocking and Testing, ready for summer ☀️ vacations!</description></item><item><title>A Thriving year in the CNCF Sandbox and Its Transformative Impacts</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-a-thriving-year-in-the-cncf-sandbox/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-a-thriving-year-in-the-cncf-sandbox/</guid><description>In the ever-evolving landscape of open-source software, achieving recognition and support from reputable foundations can be a game-changer for projects.</description></item><item><title>CNAM Partners with Microcks for Automated SOAP Service Mocking</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/cnam-soap-service-mocking/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/cnam-soap-service-mocking/</guid><description>With over 2,500 employees, the Caisse Nationale de l’Assurance Maladie CNAM is the operational &amp;ldquo;headquarters&amp;rdquo; of France&amp;rsquo;s compulsory health insurance system.</description></item><item><title>Microcks 1.9.1 release 🚀</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.9.1-release/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.9.1-release/</guid><description>Just two months after the previous release, we are thrilled to announce this brand-new Microcks version!</description></item><item><title>Introducing new Proxy features in Microcks 1.9.1</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/new-proxy-features-1.9.1/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/new-proxy-features-1.9.1/</guid><description>We all know about the many benefits of Microcks, which makes it an excellent tool for the software development process.</description></item><item><title>Mocking OpenID Connect redirect</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/mocking-oidc-redirect/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/mocking-oidc-redirect/</guid><description>A few days ago, I worked on a new prototype to see what it means to use Microcks to mock OpenID Connect authentication flows.</description></item><item><title>Microcks 1.9.0 release 🚀</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.9.0-release/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.9.0-release/</guid><description>This has been a busy week just before KubeCon EU, but we are delighted to announce the 1.</description></item><item><title>Observability for Microcks at scale</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/observability-for-microcks-at-scale/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/observability-for-microcks-at-scale/</guid><description>As part of the upcoming 1.9.0 release of Microcks, I’m super proud to have contributed new features related to its observability and performance monitoring!</description></item><item><title>Extend Microcks with custom libs and code</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/extend-microcks-with-custom-libs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/extend-microcks-with-custom-libs/</guid><description>With the recent Microcks 1.8.1 version, there’s an abundance of exciting enhancements, from improved OpenAPI references support to optimizations for seamless usage via Testcontainers.</description></item><item><title>Microcks 1.8.1 release 🚀</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.8.1-release/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.8.1-release/</guid><description>We are thrilled to start this New Year with a brand new Microcks release!</description></item><item><title>Microcks on Kind 🚢</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-on-kind/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-on-kind/</guid><description>I&amp;rsquo;m still on housekeeping duty! I went through my notes on installing Microcks on Kind and decided to refresh them.</description></item><item><title>Microcks on Minikube 🧊</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-on-minikube/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-on-minikube/</guid><description>As we close the year, it&amp;rsquo;s a good time for some housekeeping!</description></item><item><title>Microcks 1.8.0 release 🚀</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.8.0-release/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.8.0-release/</guid><description>As the seasons transition, we are excited to unveil the 1.</description></item><item><title>Microcks Joining CNCF as a Sandbox Project 🎉</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-joining-cncf-sandbox/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-joining-cncf-sandbox/</guid><description>We are excited to announce that Microcks, the open-source API mocking and testing project, has been accepted as a Sandbox project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).</description></item><item><title>Microcks 1.7.1 release 🚀</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.7.1-release/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.7.1-release/</guid><description>The seasons follow one another and here’s a Microcks release just ready for summer ☀️.</description></item><item><title>Introducing Microcks Docker Desktop Extension 0.2: Enhanced Features and Increased Cadence 🚀</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/docker-desktop-extension-0.2/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/docker-desktop-extension-0.2/</guid><description>We are very excited to announce the availability of Microcks Docker Desktop Extension 0.</description></item><item><title>Join the Microcks Adopters list and Empower the vibrant open source Community 🙌</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/join-adopters-list/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/join-adopters-list/</guid><description>Open source software has revolutionized the way enterprises develop and deploy their applications.</description></item><item><title>Microcks' Backstage integration to centralize all your APIs in a software catalog 🧩</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/backstage-integration-launch/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2023 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/backstage-integration-launch/</guid><description>Identifying and managing software assets has always been a challenge! It became more and more difficult these years with the blast of multi-cloud deployments and practices like microservices.</description></item><item><title>J.B. Hunt: Mock It till You Make It with Microcks</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/jb-hunt-mock-it-till-you-make-it/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/jb-hunt-mock-it-till-you-make-it/</guid><description>Collaboration in the enterprise has many challenges which can become pitfalls and roadblocks that threaten to slow agile software development to a complete standstill.</description></item><item><title>Microcks 1.7.0 release 🚀</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.7.0-release/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.7.0-release/</guid><description>The end of the winter season ☃️ is coming. But unlike our fellow hibernators 🐻, instead of living off stores of fat, our amazing community has worked hard on yet another Microcks release - yes, version 1.</description></item><item><title>Microcks partners with Postman to shape next-gen multi-protocol API tooling ⭐️</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-partners-with-postman/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-partners-with-postman/</guid><description>I’m feeling proud and honored to let you know that we’re partnering with Postman, the leading platform for API development, to define the future of multi-protocol API tooling 🚀</description></item><item><title>Microcks Docker Desktop Extension 🚀</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/docker-desktop-extension-launch/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/docker-desktop-extension-launch/</guid><description>We are excited to announce the release of Microcks&amp;rsquo; Docker Desktop Extension as we always love to support and improve the lives of our community members.</description></item><item><title>Microcks 1.6.0 release 🚀</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.6.0-release/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.6.0-release/</guid><description>We are excited to announce the 1.6.0 release of Microcks - the Open source Kubernetes-native tool for API Mocking and Testing.</description></item><item><title>Microcks 1.5.2 release 🚀</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.5.2-release/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.5.2-release/</guid><description>We are delighted to announce the 1.5.2 release of Microcks - the Open source Kubernetes-native tool for API Mocking and Testing.</description></item><item><title>Microcks’ hub and marketplace!</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-hub-announcement/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-hub-announcement/</guid><description>We are very proud to announce the launch of Microcks’ community hub and free marketplace 👉 hub.</description></item><item><title>Microcks 1.5.1 release 🚀</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.5.1-release/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.5.1-release/</guid><description>We are proud to announce the 1.5.1 release of Microcks - the Open source Kubernetes-native tool for API Mocking and Testing.</description></item><item><title>Microcks 1.5.0 release 🚀</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.5.0-release/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.5.0-release/</guid><description>We are excited to announce the 1.5.0 release of Microcks - the Open source Kubernetes-native tool for API Mocking and Testing.</description></item><item><title>GraphQL features in Microcks: what to expect?</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/graphql-features-what-to-expect/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/graphql-features-what-to-expect/</guid><description>In various 2021 reports, GraphQL has been spotted as one of the most exciting technologies to consider for APIs.</description></item><item><title>Microcks 1.4.1 release 🚀</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.4.1-release/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.4.1-release/</guid><description>We are thrilled to announce today the 1.4.1 release of Microcks - the Open source Kubernetes-native tool for API Mocking and Testing.</description></item><item><title>Async Features with Docker Compose</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/async-features-with-docker-compose/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/async-features-with-docker-compose/</guid><description>For some weeks now, many users from the Microcks community were asking for playing with AsyncAPI related features without having to setup a Minikube or a full Kubernetes instance.</description></item><item><title>Microcks 1.3.0 release 🚀</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.3.0-release/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.3.0-release/</guid><description>We are so proud and happy to share this new major and important Microcks release two months in advance based on our initial roadmap!</description></item><item><title>Microcks 1.2.1 release 🚀</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.2.1-release/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2021 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.2.1-release/</guid><description>We are very glad to announce today the 1.2.1 release of Microcks - the Open source Kubernetes-native tool for API Mocking and Testing.</description></item><item><title>Simulating CloudEvents with AsyncAPI and Microcks</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/simulating-cloudevents-with-asyncapi/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/simulating-cloudevents-with-asyncapi/</guid><description>TL;DR: CloudEvents and AsyncAPI are complementary specifications that help define your Event Driven Architecture.</description></item><item><title>Podman Compose support in Microcks</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/podman-compose-support/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/podman-compose-support/</guid><description>While Docker is still the #1 option for software packaging and installation on the developer laptop, Podman is gaining traction.</description></item><item><title>Microcks 1.2.0 release 🚀</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.2.0-release/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.2.0-release/</guid><description>We are delighted to announce the 1.2.0 release of Microcks - the Open source Kubernetes-native tool for API Mocking and Testing.</description></item><item><title>Advanced Dispatching and Constraints for mocks</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/advanced-dispatching-constraints/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/advanced-dispatching-constraints/</guid><description>The purpose of this post is to explain the advanced dispatching and constraint features available when mocking a REST API using Microcks.</description></item><item><title>Continuous Testing of ALL your APIs</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/continuous-testing-all-your-apis/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/continuous-testing-all-your-apis/</guid><description>We talk a lot about asynchronous API lately at Microcks! We added many new innovative features taking advantage of the AsyncAPI specification.</description></item><item><title>Integrating Microcks into Apicurio Keycloak</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/integrating-in-apicurio-keycloak/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/integrating-in-apicurio-keycloak/</guid><description>Microcks is an amazing tool that helps developers mock their APIs seamlessly using OpenAPI specs.</description></item><item><title>Apache Kafka Mocking and Testing</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/apache-kafka-mocking-testing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/apache-kafka-mocking-testing/</guid><description>We see Apache Kafka being more and more commonly used as an event backbone in new organizations everyday.</description></item><item><title>Microcks 1.1.0 release 🚀</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.1.0-release/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.1.0-release/</guid><description>We are very thrilled to announce today Microcks 1.1.0 release — the Open source Kubernetes-native tool for API Mocking and Testing.</description></item><item><title>Why Microcks?</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/why-microcks/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/why-microcks/</guid><description>Microcks recently reached a key milestone as we officially announced on Aug 11th 2020 the release of Microcks 1.</description></item><item><title>Microcks 1.0.0 release 🚀</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.0.0-release/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-1.0.0-release/</guid><description>Today is a very special day as we launch Microcks 1.</description></item><item><title>Install Microcks on AWS for a test drive 🧪</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/install-microcks-on-aws/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/install-microcks-on-aws/</guid><description>Whilst we recommend installing Microcks on Kubernetes for easy management and enhanced capabilities, it can also be deployed onto a regular Virtual Machine.</description></item><item><title>Microcks 0.9.0 release 🚀</title><link>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-0.9.0-release/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2020 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/blog/microcks-0.9.0-release/</guid><description>I am delighted to announce Microcks release 0.9.0 — the Open source Kubernetes native tool for API Mocking and Testing.</description></item><item><title>Alain Pham</title><link>https://microcks.io/author/alain-pham/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/author/alain-pham/</guid><description>Principal Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs</description></item><item><title>Carol Gschwend</title><link>https://microcks.io/author/carol-gschwend/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/author/carol-gschwend/</guid><description>Senior Software Engineer at J.B. Hunt</description></item><item><title>Diane Mueller</title><link>https://microcks.io/author/diane-mueller/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/author/diane-mueller/</guid><description>Managing Director, Research and Advisory Services at Bitergia</description></item><item><title>Hugo Guerrero</title><link>https://microcks.io/author/hugo-guerrero/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/author/hugo-guerrero/</guid><description>Chief Software Architect, APIs &amp;amp; Integration Developer Advocate at Red Hat</description></item><item><title>Laurent Broudoux</title><link>https://microcks.io/author/laurent-broudoux/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/author/laurent-broudoux/</guid><description>Co-founder of Microcks | Director of Engineering at Postman Open Technologies</description></item><item><title>Ludovic Pourrat</title><link>https://microcks.io/author/ludovic-pourrat/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/author/ludovic-pourrat/</guid><description>API Architect | Platform Architect at Lombard Odier</description></item><item><title>Nicolas Masse</title><link>https://microcks.io/author/nicolas-masse/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/author/nicolas-masse/</guid><description>Principal Solution Architect at Red Hat</description></item><item><title>Nikolay Afanasyev</title><link>https://microcks.io/author/nikolay-afanasyev/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/author/nikolay-afanasyev/</guid><description>Lead Developer</description></item><item><title>Sebastien Fraigneau</title><link>https://microcks.io/author/sebastien-fraigneau/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/author/sebastien-fraigneau/</guid><description>Senior Software Engineer at CNAM</description></item><item><title>Yacine Kheddache</title><link>https://microcks.io/author/yacine-kheddache/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://microcks.io/author/yacine-kheddache/</guid><description>Co-founder of Microcks | Director of Product Strategy &amp;amp; Innovation at Postman Open Technologies</description></item></channel></rss>