# Understanding inter communication

**URL:** <https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/understanding-inter-communication/745>\
**Category:** Using FoundationDB\
**Created:** [October 5, 2018, 12:51am UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/understanding-inter-communication/745 "2018-10-05T00:51:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chandru4u](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b487fb/32.png) [@Chandru4u](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/Chandru4u)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/understanding-inter-communication/745/10 "2018-10-08T22:47:15Z")

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Thanks Alex for the detailed reply.  
I tried incorporating the comments. If you see any issues with this, please let us all know.  
Now I understand why Read transaction in “[Technical overview of the database](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/technical-overview-of-the-database/135/3)” has a direct communication with the storage. It basically is step # 5 in the below diagram.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/original/1X/29699dfe4944e6101364345821861338e8e794b5.png)

Thanks & Regards  
Chandru

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