Contracts for Hire

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Demo shows breaking a contract live then fixing it, proving a contract change fails builds without running dependent services. Contracts run at unit-test speed and let teams deploy independently; one org with 1000+ microservices starts by spending a month on contracts and pipelines then becomes the fastest team in six months. Requirements: both sides must honor published contracts, tests mock providers, tools auto-manage contracts (and AI can scaffold them), and critical APIs get prioritized first.

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1. 0:00Contract testing intro
2. 2:57Speaker background
3. 4:03Microservices and contract testing
4. 10:01Contract testing in testing
5. 13:33Benefits of contract testing
6. 17:48Contract testing in practice
7. 22:29Requirements for contract testing
8. 24:59Q&A

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