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Holly Cummins on Getting Into and Testing Microservices

Microservices architecture is one of the most popular options for companies going through application modernization or migrating to the cloud. However, companies may end up abandoning them altogether as the hype comes to an end. 

In fact, for Senior Principal Software Engineer Holly Cummins, microservices can be a bitter drink for migrating companies that didn't question whether or not they were making the right decision. Holly will educate us on the challenges microservices come with and share the right way to test them.

Holly Cummins is a senior principal software engineer part of the Quarkus team at Red Hat. Before that, she worked at IBM for 20 years, spending the last five years with the company as a cloud consultant at IBM Garage. Her role there was to help clients with cloud migration. 

During this time, Holly guided clients to successful cloud migration stories. Moreover, Holly also helped to put back on track companies that were facing issues during their migration processes.

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