Definition
In this lesson, we'll introduce asynchronous microservices.
We'll cover the following...
Asynchronous microservices are different from synchronous microservices, which are covered in depth in Chapter 9.
A microservice is synchronous if it makes a request to other microservices while processing requests and waits for the result.
The logic to handle a request in the microservice might therefore not depend on the result of a request to a different microservice.
So, a definition of asynchronous microservices would be: ...