Devops

HAProxy sidecars for mTLS. Hystrix for circuit breaking. Apache Camel between layers within the same service. Six API versions. A mandated common framework. A squash merge ban. Each decision was defensible. Combined, they created a system that took three months to onboard into.

Katalon solved a real problem for its era: giving non-coding QA teams a path to automation. That problem has been solved more effectively by open-source frameworks and AI code generation.