How to Handle Inter-Service Communication in Go

Inter-service communication in Go is handled by standard libraries like net/http for HTTP requests and gRPC for high-performance RPC, often orchestrated via environment variables or service discovery. Use the net/http client to send requests to other services running on different ports or hosts.

resp, err := http.Get("http://service-b:8080/api/data")
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()

Inter-service communication is how separate parts of your application talk to each other over a network. Think of it like one worker sending a written note to another worker in a different room to get a task done. You use standard tools to send these notes (data) reliably so the whole system works together.