Microservices Communication Patterns
Patterns for service-to-service communication including sync, async, and service mesh approaches.
- Difficulty
- advanced
- Read time
- 1 min read
- Version
- v1.0.0
- Confidence
- established
- Last updated
Quick Reference
Microservices Communication: Prefer async (events/queues) over sync (HTTP/gRPC) for resilience. Use API Gateway for external traffic. Service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) for internal traffic management. Implement circuit breakers. Use correlation IDs. Design for eventual consistency.
Use When
- Distributed systems
- Microservices architecture
- Service-to-service calls
- Cross-team ownership
Skip When
- Monolithic applications
- Single-team projects
- Simple request/response
Microservices Communication Patterns
Patterns for service-to-service communication including sync, async, and service mesh approaches.