June 2016
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
8h 6m
English
Something else that needs to be considered is how services will communicate with one another. The checkout service might need information from the catalog service, or the checkout service might need to send some information to a notification service. Quite often this is in the form of a REST-based API over HTTP/S using JSON serialization, but this is not always the best choice for certain interactions. There are a number of different protocols, serialization formats, and trade-offs to consider. A quick online search will find a lot of great information available covering the performance and management trade-offs with the various serialization options.
Serialization Overhead
Serialization often represents the ...
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