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Distributed SystemsIntermediate

Communication Between Services

Master how microservices talk to each other — synchronous REST and gRPC, async messaging, event-driven patterns, resilience, and distributed consistency.

8 hours10 lessons4.8 rating7,200 students

Course Curriculum

1

Why Services Communicate

14 min

2

Synchronous REST APIs

22 min

3

gRPC & Protocol Buffers

24 min

4

Message Queues & Pub/Sub

26 min

5

Event-Driven Architecture

22 min

6

The API Gateway Pattern

18 min

7

Service Discovery

20 min

8

Resilience: Retries, Timeouts & Circuit Breakers

24 min

9

Sagas & Distributed Consistency

26 min

10

Choosing the Right Communication Style

16 min

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Jordan Lee

Senior Developer

What you'll learn
  • Why Services Communicate
  • Synchronous REST APIs
  • gRPC & Protocol Buffers
  • Message Queues & Pub/Sub