Microservices Orchestration vs. Choreography: A decision framework

• Main Authors: MEGARGEL, Alan @ Ali MADJELISI, POSKITT, Christopher M., SHANKARARAMAN, Venky
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: microservices; orchestration; choreography; event-based; invocation-based; service-oriented architecture; Databases and Information Systems; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6577; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7580/viewcontent/microservices_df_edoc21.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Microservices-based applications consist of loosely coupled, independently deployable services that encapsulate units of functionality. To implement larger application processes, these microservices must communicate and collaborate. Typically, this follows one of two patterns: (1) choreography, in w...