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Microservices with Go
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Microservices with Go

by Alexander Shuiskov
November 2022
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
7h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
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Asynchronous Communication

In the previous chapter, we illustrated how services can communicate with each other using a synchronous request-response model. There are other communication models that provide various benefits to the application developer, such as asynchronous communication, which we are going to cover in this chapter.

In this chapter, you are going to learn the basics of asynchronous communication and some common techniques for using it, as well as some benefits and challenges it brings to microservice developers. We will cover a popular piece of asynchronous communication software, Apache Kafka, and illustrate how to use it for establishing communication between our microservices.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the ...

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