My Startup Failed, So We Open-Sourced the Tech

Re:My Startup Failed, So We Open-Sourced the Tech by DelightOne on Sunday February 23, 2020 @07:17AM (#22396495)

My condolences!

> no direct communication between services

How does indirect communication work?

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Re:My Startup Failed, So We Open-Sourced the Tech by williamdclt on Sunday February 23, 2020 @07:53AM (#22396610)

I suppose they mean asynchronous communication through a message broker/queue?

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Re:My Startup Failed, So We Open-Sourced the Tech by EpicEng on Sunday February 23, 2020 @11:08AM (#22397524)

Yep, exactly.

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Re:My Startup Failed, So We Open-Sourced the Tech by oulu2006 on Sunday February 23, 2020 @06:22PM (#22400293)

Is no direct communication between microservices necessarily a bad thing?

I've made a few similar design decisions in our tech stack, we have no "direct communication" between microservices, discounting the shared database. Microservices communicate through the use of RabbitMQ.

We build our system around the premise of eventual consistency, thus reducing the need of blocking computations.

So-far this has served us rather well.

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Re:My Startup Failed, So We Open-Sourced the Tech by DelightOne on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @12:49AM (#22411200)

All has pros and cons. Here it is (async) central simple central communication vs central point of failure I guess.

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