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HeartbeatConversation Patterns » Managing Distributed Systems

Multiple participants collaborate in a distributed system.

How one know that another participant is working properly and is ready to receive messages?

The component supplies a Heartbeat, a series of periodic messages that indicate the component is operating well.

The Heartbeat conversation involves the following participants:

Related patterns: Asynchronous Request-Response


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