Simplicity in asynchronous communication is critical to maintaining the maintainability of the application as a whole. Just as a Death Star can be created when we use synchronous communication between microservices, the same can happen when we use asynchronous communication. However, there is an aggravation; with the asynchronous communication, it is a little more complicated to identify points of failure immediately.
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