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Rishikesh Baidya
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July 5, 202410 min read
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Microservices communication is one of the most challenging aspects of distributed systems. At Softechinfra, our development team has designed resilient architectures for projects like AppliedView and Radiant Finance.
99.9%
Uptime Target
50ms
P95 Latency
10x
Traffic Spikes
0
Data Loss
Communication Styles
| Style | Synchronous | Asynchronous |
|---|---|---|
| Response | Immediate | Eventually |
| Coupling | Tighter | Looser |
| Best For | Queries, immediate needs | Long operations, reliability |
| Examples | REST, gRPC | Kafka, RabbitMQ |
Key Patterns
API Gateway
Single entry point, rate limiting, protocol translation
Service Mesh
mTLS, traffic management, observability
Event-Driven
Loose coupling, scalability, replay capability
Saga Pattern
Distributed transactions with compensating actions
Resilience Patterns
"In distributed systems, everything fails eventually. Design for failure with circuit breakers, retries, and bulkheads—not as afterthoughts, but as core architecture."
- Circuit Breaker: Prevent cascading failures by failing fast
- Retry with Backoff: Handle transient failures gracefully
- Bulkhead: Isolate failures with resource limits
- Timeout: Don't wait forever—fail fast
Technology Choices
✅ Real Result: For AppliedView, we implemented event-driven architecture with Kafka that handles 10x traffic spikes with zero data loss.
Message broker options:
- Apache Kafka: High throughput, event streaming, replay
- RabbitMQ: Flexible routing, task queues
- AWS SQS/SNS: Managed, simple integration
Best Practices
⚠️ Critical Requirements: Idempotency, API versioning, and observability are non-negotiable in production microservices. Skip them at your peril.
- Design for failure—everything can fail
- Make operations idempotent for safe retries
- Version APIs for backward compatibility
- Implement distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry)
For platform architecture, see our Platform Engineering Guide.
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MicroservicesArchitectureDistributed SystemsBackendEvent-Driven