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Microservices patterns: Synchronous vs Asynchronous communication

From functions calls to distributed transactions, what does it take to make two services communicate?

5 min readMay 18, 2021

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While calling a service to send an email may seem trivial within a monolith, it can become a real headache in a distributed architecture.

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Grégoire Mielle

A French Software engineer that seeks to help builders gain context around the technology they use to better solve their problems.