System Design Patterns: From Fundamentals to Real Systems
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1. The Pattern

Deploy a small helper process alongside every service instance: same machine, connected over localhost: and let it handle the networking work: TLS, retries, timeouts, metrics, tracing: while the service does only its job.

The module turns east-west here, and the first thing visible on the inside is a familiar problem

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