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Not once did I mention unit testing.

What I mentioned was an adapter and port. If you can only run against a postgres database, your integration test is going to require setup and be slow. If you can easily swap the postgres adapter out for sqlite or in memory, the same test will be practically instantaneous and self contained. The same test can be occasionally run against a postgres database (like once a night), to ensure there are no postgres specific idiosyncracies.

Thus I started by saying how you can integration test quickly without mocks (sometimes it would be called a fake, but using a different db is something else) on real routes.