Jason Porter

JASON PORTER has been crafting software since he was 12. A couple of years before that, he discovered the amazing world of computers and programming on an old 80286 while looking through games written in BASIC. His interest in programming led him to Java and then C/C++. He became involved in web development in the early days, with Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. Fighting with things like DHTML and layers occupied his time. At the venerable age of 15, Jason got a job with a local web development company and spent time coding websites and writing CGI scripts in Perl. (He tries to forget those days, though.) Since that time, he’s worked in various industries, coding in Java, PHP, Ruby, C#, and JavaScript. He primarily considers himself a backend developer, but the entire coding landscape is his playground.

At Red Hat, Jason has worked on various frameworks, websites, and integrations. He’s spoken in the United States and internationally and is tickled every time he can help someone better understand a programming concept or new technology. Jason lives in Utah with his lovely wife and five children, whom he can’t program as easily as a computer.

books by Jason Porter

Testing Java Microservices

  • August 2018
  • ISBN 9781617292897
  • 296 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Simplified Chinese

Testing Java Microservices teaches you to implement unit and integration tests for microservice systems running on the JVM. You’ll work with a microservice environment built using Java EE, WildFly Swarm, and Docker. You’ll advance from writing simple unit tests for individual services to more-advanced practices like chaos or integration tests. As you move towards a continuous-delivery pipeline, you’ll also master live system testing using technologies like the Arquillian, Wiremock, and Mockito frameworks, along with techniques like contract testing and over-the-wire service virtualization. Master these microservice-specific practices and tools and you’ll greatly increase your test coverage and productivity, and gain confidence that your system will work as you expect.