Hi Matteo, great article! I have a question that in what format messages must be communicated among the microservices. I am currently using hashmaps or json strings and dont think they are the best industrial practices. Is there anything you could advice.
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If you're using brokers that support binary payloads, I recommend you look at MessagePack if you want a schema-less format (very akin to JSON). If on the other hand, you want to have a strongly typed message schema, with known data structures very similar to programming language classes, then Protocol Buffers or Apache Thrift are much more robust solutions.
I recommend the latter if you have many different microservices. MessagePack is easier but can be less ideal when scaling.
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Hi Matteo, great article! I have a question that in what format messages must be communicated among the microservices. I am currently using hashmaps or json strings and dont think they are the best industrial practices. Is there anything you could advice.
If you're using brokers that support binary payloads, I recommend you look at MessagePack if you want a schema-less format (very akin to JSON). If on the other hand, you want to have a strongly typed message schema, with known data structures very similar to programming language classes, then Protocol Buffers or Apache Thrift are much more robust solutions.
I recommend the latter if you have many different microservices. MessagePack is easier but can be less ideal when scaling.