US Patent 11169862 Normalizing messaging flows in a microservice architecture

In a distributed system with a microservice architecture having a framework supporting a messaging layer between client applications and server-side handlers, systems and methods include receiving a message by a server-side handler in the framework with the message one of blocking and non-blocking from a client application; handling the message by the server-side handler as one of blocking and non-blocking selected independent of a designation by the client application since the framework abstracts the messaging layer from the client application; and providing a response by the server-side handler to the client application.