Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

Communication (asynchronous)

The term communication is self-explanatory; it is the act of interaction between services. Examples of this include the following:

• A service communicating with another service within the same application
• A service communicating with another service outside of the application (external services)
• A service communicating with a component (internal or external)

This communication happens over the HTTP protocol as messages or data traverse over the wire.

Your application's performance impacts how services communicate with each other.

Asynchronous communication is one of the methods that help to scale applications. In ASP.NET Core, we can achieve this by using asynchronous HTTP calls (asynchronous programming): ...