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An e-commerce company experiences frequent checkout failures during flash sale events. The current monolithic order service uses synchronous REST calls to communicate with an inventory reservation service, a payment processing gateway, and an email notification system.
During peak traffic, downstream processing delays cause cascading timeouts across the application, leading to dropped checkout transactions and a degraded user experience. The engineering team wants to modernize the architecture using cloud-native design principles to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and independent service scalability.
Which architectural approach should you recommend to decouple the checkout workflow?
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