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@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ across the services and retry a different node if there's a problem.
 to seamlessly encode and decode Go types for you. Any variety of messages could be encoded and sent from different clients. The client 
 and server handle this by default. This includes protobuf and json by default.
 
-- **Sync Streaming** - RPC based request/response with support for bidirectional streaming. We provide an abstraction for synchronous 
+- **Request/Response** - RPC based request/response with support for bidirectional streaming. We provide an abstraction for synchronous 
 communication. A request made to a service will be automatically resolved, load balanced, dialled and streamed. The default 
 transport is http/1.1 or http2 when tls is enabled.