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Communication between microservices

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Communication between microservices

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In our microservices architecture, you'll need to communicate from one service to another. There are two main ways to do this. Synchronously or asynchronously. With the synchronous mechanism, the service to which we are going to communicate exposes an API which knows in advance this service that initiates the communication. Generally, this happens through the HTTP protocol. However this mechanism is not limited in any way to that protocol. One of the main advantages of this method is that it's very simple. However in practice, there are a few drawbacks. Services might be running on different servers. So service A might be calling service B across the network. It can cause some challenges with the scaling. If service B is still working, service A will get caught up waiting for it. You should also consider implementing resilience straits in your application, to retry communication in case of failure…

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