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gRPC Microservices in Go
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gRPC Microservices in Go

by Huseyin Babal
December 2023
Intermediate to advanced
200 pages
5h 20m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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6 Resilient communication

This chapter covers

  • Tips and tricks for how to use retry and timeout for gRPC communication
  • Using circuit breakers for interservice communication to have better resiliency
  • Error handling during service communications
  • Securing interservice communication with TLS configuration

In a typical monolithic application, any critical error can bring the entire system down because all the application components live in one shared runtime. Once you switch to microservice architecture, those components are decoupled by extracting to separate services, but this distributed system environment has its own disadvantages. For this reason, microservices should be designed for resiliency and always be fault tolerant. Let’s look at the ...

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