Tag: Microservice

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Glossary Terms

The circuit breaker pattern stops calls to failing dependencies temporarily, preventing cascading failures and wasted resources.

Distributed tracing follows a request across services with a trace identifier, showing where latency, errors, or retries occur.

GraphQL Federation combines independently owned schemas so multiple teams can expose one unified GraphQL supergraph.

Micro frontend splits a large user interface into smaller applications that independent teams can build, deploy, and compose.

Microservice architecture designs a large application as small services that can be developed, deployed, and scaled independently.

Microservice communication is how independent services exchange data and commands through REST, gRPC, events, or message queues.

The Saga pattern splits a distributed business transaction into steps and uses compensating actions to preserve consistency when a step fails.

A service mesh manages traffic between microservices through a proxy layer, adding mTLS, observability, routing, and policy controls.