Tag: Azure

A Service Registry is a live "phone book" for your services.

A Backend for Frontend (BFF) is a small server-side application that exists for exactly one kind of client (for example the Angular web app, the iOS/Android app, or a partner portal).

An API Gateway is a single entry point that sits between external clients (browser, mobile app, partner systems) and your internal microservices.

A domain-specific protocol means choosing a wire protocol that fits the *shape of the traffic* instead of defaulting to HTTP/JSON for everything.

An idempotent consumer is a message handler that produces the same end result whether a message is processed once or several times.

Messaging means services talk to each other by putting messages on a durable broker (Azure Service Bus, Kafka, RabbitMQ) instead of calling each other directly and waiting.