Microservices: how to handle foreign key relationships

Question

Microservices architecture suggest that each service should handle it\'s own data. Hence any service (Service A) dependent on data owned by other service (service B) should acce

Answer 1

A 2020 update to this answer is to use a Change Data Capture tool like Debezium. Debezium will monitor your database tables for changes and stream them to Kafka/Pulsar (other pipes) and your subscribers can then capture the changes and synchronize them.