Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices
by Harihara Subramanian J, Anupama Murali, Pethuru Raj
Service discovery
We explained how the service registry solution comes in handy when pinpointing the location details of microservices and their instances. In a monolithic application, finding and calling application components happen through one of the language-level methods. If application components are being run in different process spaces, then there are remote method invocations (RMIs), remote procedure calls (RPCs), distributed component object model (DCOM), and so on. In a traditional legacy IT environment, applications run at fixed and well-known locations. That is, the hosts and ports are fixed in order to be found and used. Applications, therefore, can easily call one another using any one of the standard communication and data ...
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