Building Microservices with Go

Load balancing

When we discussed service discovery, we examined the concepts of server-side and client-side discovery. My personal preference is to look at client side for any internal calls as it affords you greater control over the logic of retries on a case by case basis. Why do I like client side load balancing? For many years server-side discovery was the only option, and there was also a preference for doing SSL termination on the load balancer due to the performance problems. This is not necessarily true anymore and as we will see when we look at the chapter on security. It is a good idea to use TLS secured connections internally. However, what about being able to do sophisticated traffic distribution? That can only be achieved if ...