Let’s say we have a User, Wallet REST microservices and an API gateway that glues things together. When Bob registers on our website, our API gateway needs to create a user through the User microservice and a wallet through the Wallet microservice. Now here are a few scenarios where things could go wrong: User Bob … Read more
What is the standard pattern of orchestrating microservices? If a microservice only knows about its own domain, but there is a flow of data that requires that multiple services interact in some manner, what’s the way to go about it? Let’s say we have something like this: Invoicing Shipment And for the sake of the … Read more
I’m trying to understand where GraphQL is most suitable to use within a microservice architecture. There is some debate about having only 1 GraphQL schema that works as API Gateway proxying the request to the targeted microservices and coercing their response. Microservices still would use REST / Thrift protocol for communication though. Another approach is … Read more
