7. 2. No synchronous server-to-server calls within transactions#
8. Status#
Accepted
9. Context#
The ecommerce service currently makes various synchronous server-to-server calls within transactions. This has led to both instability of the overall service and performance issues. The stability issues come in part related to the default atomic transactions and resulting DB Lock Wait Timeout errors that occur.
10. Decision#
We will add no new synchronous server-to-server calls. Unless special permission is granted by the Elder, these issues must be resolved in some other way.
11. Consequences#
Additionally, there will need to be an ongoing effort to transition existing synchronous server-to-server calls to the appropriate future design for each case.
Some possible alternative solutions include:
Moving calls to be asynchronously made from the ecommerce workers
Passing more required data to an endpoint
Making multiple calls from the front-end
Moving data that should belong to ecommerce
Data redundancy
Caching data in the JWT
Other