Architectural Patterns

Service instance routing

How can consumers contact and interact with service instances without the need for proprietary processing logic?:

Problem	When required to repeatedly access a specific stateful service instance, consumers must rely on the custom logic that more tightly couples them to the service.
Solution	The service provides an instance identifier along with its destination information in a standardized format that shields the consumer from having to resort to custom logic.
Impacts	This pattern can introduce the need for significant infrastructure upgrades, and when misused can further lead to overly stateful messaging activities that can violate the service statelessness principle.

 

Problem: There are cases ...