> I don't know. The level of complexity this introduces seems to be way higher than anything in the original article. HTTP isn't synchronous, we just often pre

> I don't know. The level of complexity this introduces seems to be way higher than anything in the original article. HTTP isn't synchronous, we just often pretend it is. You can pretend messages are synchronous using exactly the same semantics and get exactly the same terrible failure modes when requests or responses are lost or delayed.