In the early days of voicemail, leaving messages was an efficient and convenient way to avoid playing “telephone tag” or scheduling unnecessary meetings. Voicemail messages record vocal inflections to ...

Tension: Companies implement asynchronous work to solve communication problems while the dysfunction simply migrates to new platforms and tools. Noise: Productivity experts celebrate async work as ...

Video messaging brings a new twist to asynchronous communications, and could help businesses connect staffers more effectively as hybrid remote work strategies continue post-pandemic. Video meetings ...

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Often, hybrid microservices architecture is overlooked when comparing synchronous and asynchronous communication, but it's an important model to know. Here's how these microservices architectures work ...

The development of Web services depends on several protocols. SOAP over HTTP is the messaging protocol predominantly used at the present time, and synchronous RPC is the predominant messaging pattern.