September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
244 pages
6h 44m
English
In synchronous communication, one service communicates with another and waits to get a result. This is normally done through simple HTTP calls using the same approach as end clients. So, these are simple HTTP calls that get a response (mostly JSON). One service sends an HTTP request to another service, waits for its response, and proceeds after getting the response. Synchronous communication has network overheads and have to wait for response, but it is simple to implement and sometimes that delay is not a problem. So in such cases, for the sake of simplicity we can use synchronous communication.
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