Practical Microservices

Justifying Our UI Decision

Yes, the flow of communicating to users when their naming requests have been processed ain’t pretty. Like we said in the beginning, every model we choose comes with its complexity, and autonomous components are no exception. Because the response to a user’s request isn’t immediately available, we need UI patterns to compensate. You just implemented one pattern—redirecting to a polling interstitial.

Here again is that screenshot of the video operations interstitial:

This page polls until the operation completes and then either shows users the failure reason or takes them back to the video’s page. This works, but it isn’t ...