November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
390 pages
10h 8m
English
Microservices can communicate in a synchronous and asynchronous manner. However, as things evolve, there is an insistence for event-driven microservices, which, in turn, ask for asynchronous interactions. In this section, we are going to discuss some of its motivations.
We have been fiddling with synchronous communications. We are more comfortable with TCP, HTTP, and FTP protocols, which intrinsically support synchronous communication, which has certain advantages. The overwhelmingly used interaction model of request and response is being accomplished through synchronous communication pattern. However, the world tends toward an asynchronous communication pattern. If the server application is heavily loaded, ...
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