Nicolas Michels

Backend Engineer

Nicolas Michels is a backend engineer from Brazil who builds web applications with Ruby on Rails and ASP.NET. He holds a degree in Information Systems from Unisinos, has contributed to Microsoft's open-source Entity Framework Core project, and has worked with BEON.tech since 2022. He wrote the blog's guide to consumer-driven contract testing for microservices.

Areas of Expertise

RubyRuby on RailsASP.NETC#SQLEntity Framework CoreGit

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems from Unisinos. Technician degree in Information Technology from Centro Sinodal de Ensino Médio de Sapiranga.

Articles by Nicolas Michels

Software Engineering

Consumer-Driven Contract Testing for Microservices

Building an E2E test suite in a distributed environment can be a challenging task, in many cases it could even be infeasible considering its complexity and cost, besides that, continuous integration pipelines execution could be very time consuming. Instead of focusing on applications interactions and behaviors, developers probably would spend a considerable amount of time…

Nicolas Michels Nov 30, 2022 4 min read

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