Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Communication
Understand the fundamental differences between synchronous and asynchronous communication styles in distributed systems.
How Services Talk
In microservices, services must talk to get work done. They do it two ways — synchronously and asynchronously — and knowing each is key to robust systems.
Synchronous Communication Defined
Synchronous communication is like a phone call: the sender fires a request, then blocks and waits for the response before doing anything else.
All lessons in this course
- Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Communication
- Challenges in Distributed Systems
- API Gateway and Service Discovery
- Idempotency and Message Deduplication