Twin Cities Software Symposium - No Fluff Just Stuff
NFJS2020

Twin Cities Software Symposium

March 6 - 8, 2020

Microservices Communication Patterns

Sunday - Mar 8 2:15 PM CDT - SALON A

Once you break things apart into microservices, you must then put them back together. In other words, individual services still sometimes need to talk to one another to complete a given business transaction, whether that transaction is synchronous or asynchronous. In this session I talk about the various patterns of communication within microservices - orchestration, aggregation, and adapters. I also talk about coupling between services, including stamp coupling and bandwidth issues, and how to address these common communication woes.

Agenda

  • Orchestration vs. Choreography and When To Use Each
  • Microservices Orchestration Pattern (tying services together)
  • Microservices Aggregation Pattern (cross-cutting business concerns)
  • Microservices Adapter Pattern (communicating to outside systems)
  • Stamp Coupling and Bandwidth (twin evils)
  • Asynchronous vs. Synchronous Communication
Mark Richards

Mark Richards

Independent Software Architect, Author of Fundamentals of Software Architecture

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About Mark Richards

Mark Richards is an experienced, hands-on software architect involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of microservices architectures, service-oriented architectures, and distributed systems. He has been in the software industry since 1983 and has significant experience and expertise in application, integration, and enterprise architecture. Mark is the founder of DeveloperToArchitect.com, a website devoted to helping developers in the journey to software architect. He is the author of numerous technical books and videos, including the recently published Fundamentals of Software Architecture, Microservices AntiPatterns and Pitfalls, Microservices vs. SOA, the Software Architecture Fundamentals video series, The Enterprise Messaging video series, Java Message Service, 2nd Edition, and contributing author to 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know. Mark has a master’s degree in computer science and is a regular conference speaker at the No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS) Symposium Series. He has spoken at hundreds of conferences and user groups around the world on a variety of enterprise-related technical topics.