Chapter 6

Communication patterns

In this chapter, you will:

  • Learn different communication patterns in microservices

  • Learn about pub/sub technologies and those used in the Online Auction System (OAS)

  • Go through the entire end-to-end process of setting up communication for the OAS

Early in Chapter 1, we mentioned that microservices can sometimes be difficult to work with because of the plethora of communication patterns that one must know and use in the architecture. In this chapter, we want to hedge that concern by walking you through several communication patterns.

This chapter will focus on various communication patterns that are prevalent in microservices architecture. We will cover two primary approaches used for communication such as request/response ...

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