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Published inNov 2021
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Chanaka Fernando
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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In this chapter, first, we discussed the challenges that are faced in microservice-based application design and implementation. Then, we discussed the possible approaches that we can follow to tackle those challenges, especially using the NATS messaging platform. We used several examples to showcase the functionality of NATS using different programming languages. We discussed one of the most important aspects of the microservice architecture, which is inter-service communication, in detail. We went through the specific features of NATS that can help you design and implement successful microservice-based applications and platforms by handling inter-service communication. Finally, we looked at the advantages of NATS, especially in the microservice architecture context.

Now, you should be able to understand the importance of inter-service communication in a microservice architecture and how NATS can be utilized for this. We will discuss a practical reference architecture for...

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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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