Gunnar Morling • 3/18/2025

The Synchrony Budget

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This technical article introduces the 'synchrony budget' concept for distributed systems design. It argues that services should minimize synchronous calls to other services to reduce latency and improve availability. Using an e-commerce order processing example, it contrasts synchronous and asynchronous communication patterns, recommending async by default for notifications and decoupling.

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