Microservices Patterns

Chapter 3. Interprocess communication in a microservice architecture

This chapter covers:

• Applying the communication patterns: Remote procedure invocation, Circuit breaker, Client-side discovery, Self registration, Server-side discovery, Third party registration, Asynchronous messaging, Transactional outbox, Transaction log tailing, Polling publisher
• The importance of interprocess communication in a microservice architecture
• Defining and evolving APIs
• The various interprocess communication options and their trade-offs
• The benefits of services that communicate using asynchronous messaging
• Reliably sending messages as part of a database transaction

Mary and her team, like most other developers, had some experience with interprocess communication ...