Chatty Interface

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Enforcement Core

Record: architecture:chatty-interface

Severity: discouraged

Scope: modularity, contract_compatibility

Formed by: Require many small remote calls to complete one user or business operation.

Canonical: Ontology

A defect in which one operation needs many small remote calls.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Synchronous Chain Trap and before N Plus One Query.

Refactored by

• Coarse-Grained Endpoint
• Query Projection
• Batch Fetch

Severity

• discouraged

Category

• Anti-patterns

Force

• Contract compatibility
• Modularity

Negated by

• Uniform Interface

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• Event Messaging Async
• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Severity levels
• The forces