Local cloud emulation in CI
Run your emulator as a container in the pipeline so integration tests execute on every commit — no cloud account, no shared-environment conflicts.
10 MinutesIntro
Reference Architectures
How local cloud emulation becomes local cloud development — real workflows explained, with their moving parts and trade-offs.
State, seeding and persistence
Reproducible environments across runs: seed fixtures on boot, persist state between restarts, and reset cleanly between test suites.
15 MinutesIntermediate
IaC parity: Terraform, Pulumi, CDK
Apply the same infrastructure code locally that you ship to production, and catch configuration drift before it costs a deploy cycle.
20 MinutesExpert
SaaS emulators in a local stack
Compose cloud emulators with SaaS fakes — payments, email, auth — into one local stack that mirrors your production dependency graph.
20 MinutesExpert
Evaluating IAM policies locally
Test permission boundaries and policy changes against emulated IAM before they reach a real account — least privilege without the lockout risk.
15 MinutesIntermediate