Mauricio Salatino

Bio

Mauricio Salatino (@salaboy) is an Open Source Software Engineer at Diagrid, contributing to and driving initiatives for the Dapr OSS project. He also serves as a Steering Committee member for the Knative Project, and is co-leading the Knative Functions initiative.

Mauricio wrote book titled Platform Engineering on Kubernetes for Manning. He previously worked at VMware and Red Hat, building tools to help developers be more productive.

Q&A

What were your first experiences with Testcontainers?

I used Testcontainers to test Java / Spring Boot applications, but lately I worked on building the Testcontainers Dapr and Spring Boot integrations.

What’s your favourite Testcontainers module?

Dapr

What are your favourite features for Testcontainers?

Reuse and dns host mappings

What’s the most memorable bug you managed to reproduce with a test using Testcontainers?

For me more than a bug it is the complex use case of wiring up cloud native applications for local development