GoodData company builds an Enterprise Insights Platform-as-a-Service. This platform is composed of components with high complexity which are developed using various programming languages. Such a distributed system is being delivered to multiple data-centers with heavy delivery process where the application is being delivered as a monolithic application.
We are considering the continuous deployment approach. It would deliver isolated microservices as soon as possible, whilst it would also maintain the highest quality and lowest risk for any kind of regression.
The goal of this thesis is to study the concepts of microservices, contract-based testing and continuous delivery/deployment. Demonstrate this knowledge by designing a testing approach for microservices implemented in different languages and integrate it in automated test-and-build pipelines. It should be demonstrated on non-trivial demo applications and the same approach should be ready to be adapted to internal GoodData components and internal delivery pipelines. The student should not limit the thesis only to the HTTP protocol, but they shall consider also binary protocols like gRPC.
Progress on the thesis will be continuously evaluated by GoodData stakeholders and the thesis will provide an extracted "best-practice" document for engineering teams.
The thesis will document the concepts of microservices, the proposed demo application and its automated deployment.