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Chanaka Fernando
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Chanaka Fernando

Chanaka Fernando is a solution architect with 12+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-scale software solutions for customers across various industries including finance, education, healthcare, and telecommunications. He has contributed to the open source community with his work (design, implementation, and support) as the product lead of the WSO2 ESB, one of the founding members of the "Ballerina: cloud-native programming language" project, and his own work on GitHub. He has spoken at several WSO2 conferences and his articles are published on Medium, DZone, and InfoQ. Chanaka has a bachelor's degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the University of Moratuwa.
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Messaging patterns used in distributed systems

As we saw in the previous chapter, distributed system designers use different networking topologies to interconnect systems, and most of those topologies are still used heavily in the technology industry. Network topology defines the layout of communication within the platform and the actual communication pattern; the protocols are not well defined there. In this chapter, we will discuss the communication that occurs within a distributed system.

Distributed system designers have produced different approaches to communicating between systems. These patterns include the following:

  • Remote procedure calls (RPC) versus shared resources
  • Synchronous versus asynchronous (client-server versus pub-sub)
  • Orchestration versus choreography

Let's look at the preceding approaches in more detail so that we can use them when designing communication patterns for a microservice architecture, which is another distributed system...

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Chanaka Fernando

Chanaka Fernando is a solution architect with 12+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-scale software solutions for customers across various industries including finance, education, healthcare, and telecommunications. He has contributed to the open source community with his work (design, implementation, and support) as the product lead of the WSO2 ESB, one of the founding members of the "Ballerina: cloud-native programming language" project, and his own work on GitHub. He has spoken at several WSO2 conferences and his articles are published on Medium, DZone, and InfoQ. Chanaka has a bachelor's degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the University of Moratuwa.
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