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i recently dove into implementing contract-first development across three different microservice architectures and it's been eye-opening! by defining our api contracts first, we've drastically reduced those frustrating wait times btwn teams. instead of team b finishing their work b4 moving forward (which can take weeks), now everyone is aligned from the start right off to productivity gains
more here:
https://dzone.com/articles/scalable-systems-flyway-openapi-kafka