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 Go Micro abstracts way the details of distributed systems and makes building microservices simple. Beneath the covers it provides a number of features.
 
-**Service Discovery** - Applications are automatically registered with service discovery so they can locate each other
+**Service Discovery** - Applications are automatically registered with service discovery so they can locate each other.
 
 **Load Balancing** - Smart client side load balancing is used to balance requests between instances of a service.
 
 **Synchronous Communication** - Request-response is provided as a bidirectional streaming transport layer.
 
-**Asynchronous Communication** - Microservices are an event driven architecture. Publish and Subscribe via the Broker.
+**Asynchronous Communication** - Microservices should promote an event driven architecture. Publish and Subscribe semantics are built in.
 
 **Message Encoding** - Micro services can encode requests in a number of encoding formats and seamlessly decode based on the Content-Type header.