Microservices Communication Patterns in Spring Boot: Mastering REST, gRPC, and Asynchronous Messaging for Resilient Systems

Hey there, distributed systems enthusiasts and microservices architects! If you’ve embraced the microservices paradigm, you’ve likely reaped the benefits of independent deployments, technology diversity, and team autonomy. But let’s be honest: a common challenge that quickly emerges is how these independent services talk to each other. It’s the nervous system of your entire architecture, and getting it wrong can lead to brittle systems, cascading failures, and debugging nightmares.