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How was the interaction between microservices organized?

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Interaction between microservices is organized in several ways, depending on system requirements:

  1. Synchronous interaction (HTTP/REST, gRPC):

    • One service makes a request to another and waits for a response.
    • Simple and understandable method, but can lead to delays and resilience issues.
  2. Asynchronous interaction (messages, events):

    • Using message brokers (RabbitMQ, Kafka, NATS).
    • Services publish events, others subscribe and process them.
    • Increases scalability and resilience.
  3. Using API Gateway:

    • Centralized entry point for clients.
    • Provides routing, authentication, data aggregation.
  4. Data synchronization:

    • Using patterns like Event Sourcing or CQRS to synchronize state.

Example in Python using HTTP requests:

import requests

def call_service_b(data):
    response = requests.post('http://service-b/api/process', json=data)
    if response.status_code == 200:
        return response.json()
    else:
        # error handling
        pass

For asynchronous interaction, libraries for message brokers can be used, such as pika for RabbitMQ or confluent-kafka for Kafka.

The choice of method depends on requirements for delays, reliability, and system complexity.