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		rroeserr on May 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Containers, microservices, and service meshes TCP doesn't have a request/response cycle - its a stream of bytes between applications

gshulegaard on May 21, 2019 [–]

Correct but TCP provides a reliable data stream between two hosts, the (particular) messaging protocol over it wasn't part of what I was trying to point out.

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