By badaemon
Hi @all,
in short: I’ve deployed an application which is separated in several microservices.
The requests from outside are all going to one microservice which redirects the message to other microservices (API Gateway Patten).
Then, the microservices must communicate with each other by also going over the API Gateway.
Everything works fine, but now with my droplets I’ve noticed something: The requests going between several microservices take between 50ms and 3000ms. Since it’s definitely not an internal microservice problem, I assume it’s the routing.
How can I improve the routing and get rid of these delays? Static routing? Would it also make it faster to have the microservice in an internal network?
Help and suggestions are highly appreciated!
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Hi @badaemon, that’s a cool question! I believe that you are right, I would definitely suggest trying with an internal network to see how it performs.
Besides that, is your whole setup with droplets or are you using a cluster like Kubernetes? Are you running the application on the droplets directly or do you use containers like Docker?
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