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Discover essential service communication patterns in system design, including request-response with HTTP, common data, asynchronous request-response, and event-driven communication. Understand when to use each pattern, their benefits, and potential pitfalls to make informed decisions in distributed systems.

Must-Know Service Communication Patterns

<p>Back in the start of my career we used to have an acronym for the “common data” pattern. In Brazilian Portuguese, it’d be APC-APL which would roughly translate to FGH-FGT in English (file goes here, file goes there), mockingly of course, implying an anti-pattern… It has its merits, but can be misused and cause a lot of harm (now one must poll location for file, what if file is not there, error handling, etc…)… It is still used by credit-card transaction settlement to this day…</p>
