Preface
The microservices architecture has developed into a mainstream approach to building enterprise-grade applications within the past few years. Many organizations, from large to medium to small start-ups, have started utilizing the microservices architecture to build their applications. With more and more people adopting the microservices approach to build applications, some practical challenges of the architecture have been uncovered. Inter-service communication is one challenge that most microservices teams experience when scaling applications to a larger number of instances.
At first, point-to-point inter-service communication was not working well, and the concept of smart endpoints and dumb pipes was proposed as an alternative approach. ...
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