How to pick the right inter-service communication pattern for your microservices

Transitioning from a monolithic architecture to microservices is an intricate, time-consuming task. It demands both strategic foresight and meticulous execution.

In this 10-part series, we’ll guide you through the most common challenges faced during monolith to microservices migration. Last week we published the second part of our series, on how to better manage your data and provide consistency across your entire application. This week, we are going to examine inter-service communication.

Inter-service communication is an integral part of a successful microservices architecture. Handling all that communication efficiently—and avoiding adding excessive latency—is one of the major challenges of the microservices architecture.

We'll publish a new article every Monday, so stay tuned. You can also download the full 10-part series to guide your monolith-to-microservices migration.

Without seamless communication between microservices, the functionality of the app and the experience of the end-user suffers. To make sure you maintain a good user experience you need to tailor inter-service communication to match the demands of your system and make sure it can handle failure scenarios.

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