
Episode 370: Chris Richardson on Microservice Patterns
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Asynchronous Communication - What's the Difference?
Rest isit ist, in a sense, the d o communication mechanism. The order service implements arrestapi and then i while handling one of those requests, it has make a synchronus calld to the customers service and wait for a response to come back. Then in that situation, ther there's temporal coupling between the two. And so for those reasons, it its, it's actually preferable to rely on asynchronous communication as much as possible. It works with browses, but then it's just super familiar.
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