WHAT DEPENDENCY MOCKING SOFTWARE NEEDS TO HANDLE IN A CLOUD NATIVE ARCHITECTURE

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Traditional dependency mocking tools break down in cloud native architectures where services deploy independently and drift goes undetected. Effective tools need deployment event awareness, behavior captured from real traffic rather than specs, automatic handling of non-deterministic fields, and cross-service diff visibility, with eBPF-based traffic capture cited as one approach.