Reactive Vs. Synchronous Rest. Interaction patterns in Microservices Architecture

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Introduction

One of the things we have learned through working with some of our customers that they were at the early stage of the Microservices journey; they started experiencing performance issues and reporting that their Apps are not very responsive anymore.

This article will explore inter-service communications as one possible area where strong coupling and synchronous communication can cause lack of scalability and performance degradation.