As we wrap up 2024, we at Microcks want to express our gratitude to our adopters, sponsors, partners, and community members. Your unwavering support and engagement have been the foundation of our success, making this year nothing short of remarkable. We’ve achieved significant milestones such as more community implication, stronger ecosystem collaboration, and significant communication contributions and amplification from our members.

This year has been transformative, marked by growth, innovation, and a sense of community that fuels our journey. Here’s a look at some key highlights as we enter 2025.

🚀 Microcks in Numbers

2024 has been a year of outstanding achievements:

• Over 140k downloads for December 2024, consistently growing every month and 600k+ downloads in the last year!
• A surge in community engagement with 2600+ LinkedIn followers, gaining over 1100 followers in 2024.
• We have almost 1500 GitHub stars on our main repository, a growth of +500 this year, reflecting the increasing interest in Microcks.
• We welcomed 21 public adopters (+10 this year!) and 28 private adopters we know of. We encourage private adopters to join our public list to showcase their use of Microcks.
• Expanded globally with new users across LATAM and APAC regions, emphasizing our growing international footprint, as highlighted by the Google Analytics data below for the microcks.io website over the past year.

🙌 Community Contributions: The Heart of Microcks

Our community constantly amazes us with its contributions, driving innovation and expanding Microcks’ possibilities. Adopters and users actively contributed ideas and implementations, enabling new capabilities for the Microcks platform.

A special shoutout to AXA France and Sebastien Degodez, who has become the maintainer of the Testcontainers .Net library, expanding our ecosystem to our shift-left approach for Microsoft developers 👉 https://testcontainers.com/modules/microcks/

Contributor Growth: 2024 saw significant contributors’ growth, demonstrating our community’s enthusiasm and commitment. According to devstats, Microcks had 60 contributors in 2024. These include committers from 25 organizations such as Google, Red Hat, Catena Clearing, Vinted, Adeo, Bancolumbia, OPT New Caledonia and so on.

👉 Explore more stats here.

🌟 Ecosystem Collaborations: Stronger Together

2024 was a banner year for partnerships and collaborations that pushed the boundaries of what’s possible.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA

At Salt Lake City, we announced an exciting new partnership with Traefik Labs. We deliver Sandbox as a service with a fully GitOps-automated approach to Kubernetes. This collaboration showcases the seamless integration of Traefik’s API Gateway with Microcks’ API mocking and testing capabilities 👉 Read more here.

AppDeveloperCon synergies with the Quarkus community during day 0 of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA. See the recording our the talk done with Daniel Oh (Java Champion, CNCF Ambassador, Developer Advocate at Red Hat) 👉 “Streamlining Cloud-Native Development: Simplifying Dependencies and Testing with Microcks”.

Bump.sh Partnership

We teamed up with Bump.sh, which revolutionized how developers work with API specifications. Combining Bump’s sleek documentation tools with Microcks’ robust mocking and testing capabilities offers a well-connected, efficient workflow 👉 Check out the details.

Observability with Grafana Labs

Working with Alain Pham from Grafana Labs, we introduced observability at scale for Microcks using OpenTelemetry, showcasing how modern monitoring tools can empower API testing workflows 👉Blog post here.

Collaboration with API Evangelist

Partnering with Kin Lane, the API Evangelist, we explored a new schema for defining API examples. This initiative enhances the specification of reusable examples, fostering interoperability and opening doors for broader collaboration in the open source ecosystem 👉 Learn more about this specification.

🗣️ Communication Contributions

Adopters and partners have played a crucial role in spreading the word about Microcks through talks, events, and blog posts.

Notable highlights include:

• Ludovic Pourrat from Lombard Odier sharing their journey in “Revolutionizing API Strategy: Lombard Odier’s Success Story with Microcks.”
• Sebastien Fraigneau from CNAM detailing their collaboration with “Microcks for automated SOAP service mocking”.
• Julien Breux from Google, at Conf42 Tech Conference for a talk on “Testing with Testcontainers in Go!”.
• Leon Nunes from Solo.io, meetup in Bangkok regarding “Mocking GraphQL with Microcks and Gloo Platform”.
• Hugo Guerrero from Red Hat, during KCD Guadalajara on Microcks journey in Spanish “Llevando tu Proyecto de Hobby a la Cloud Native Computing Foundation”.
• …and many more, apologies to the ones I missed in this brief recap!

These stories inspire us and highlight the various ways Microcks is making a meaningful impact in the real world, while also encouraging community members to contribute to enhancing the project’s visibility and promotion.

In 2024, we introduced two monthly community meetings, scheduled to accommodate different time zones. These sessions are open to everyone, so feel free to join us live!

👉 Watch the recording of previous sessions.

💡 Looking Ahead: 2025 and Beyond

2024 was a year of hard work, camaraderie, and innovation. But we’re not stopping here. In 2025, exciting news and activities are lined up to make Microcks the #1 open source solution for API and microservices mocking and testing and level up within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

Stay tuned for announcements, new features, and opportunities to collaborate and grow.
Thank you for being part of this incredible journey. Here’s to a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2025! 🥂

Let’s make the cloud native future even brighter together.