Performance Analysis of Interservice Communication in Microservices

Farid Salah¹ , Mohammadreza Eslaminejad² , Ali Ghermezian³

Section:Case Study, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.9 , Issue.5 , pp.43-47, Oct-2021

Online published on Oct 31, 2021

Copyright © Farid Salah, Mohammadreza Eslaminejad, Ali Ghermezian . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
Microservice architecture is a popular architecture for cloud-native software applications. Microservices are loosely coupled, and each service is responsible for its data. However, when it comes to data retrieval that requires information from different data sources, microservices need to communicate with each other. There are several approaches to address this requirement. In this paper, we implemented two approaches of interservice communication and compared their performance. We have also highlighted benefits and drawbacks of each approach and introduced some alternatives.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Microservices; Interservice Communication; API Composition; API Gateway

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