Explore three common pitfalls in microservice integration and learn effective strategies to avoid them in this 51-minute conference talk. Dive into real-life project challenges, including complex communication, asynchronicity, and distributed transactions. Discover sophisticated failure handling strategies, such as stateful retry, and understand the importance of handling timeouts for increased system resilience. Examine alternatives to XA protocols for maintaining consistency in distributed systems. Benefit from concrete source code examples and practical insights to improve microservice architecture and tame distributed systems effectively.