Mock server using WireMock

Ivan Polovyi
Level Up Coding
Published in
9 min readMay 28, 2023

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We are in the era of microservices. One of the advantages of microservices architecture is faster time to market. Development can be split into smaller parts, hence can be developed in parallel. Most of the time microservices communication is done by REST API. With that being said, a question arises as to how to efficiently develop a part of the system that requires communication with another part that is not ready. And the answer is by using mock. This tutorial will show how to easily set up a local mock server.

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I am a Java Developer | OCA Java EE 8 | Spring Professional | AWS CDA | CKA | DCA | Oracle DB CA. I started programming at age 34 and still learning.