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Mastering Spring Cloud
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Mastering Spring Cloud

by Piotr Mińkowski
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
432 pages
10h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding the need for service discovery

Let's imagine that we have already divided our monolithic application into smaller, independent services. From the outside, our system still looks the same as before, because its complexity is hidden behind the API gateway. Actually, there are not many microservices, but, there may well be many more. Additionally, each of them can interact with the others. That means that every microservice has to keep information about the others' network addresses. Maintaining such a configuration could be very troublesome, especially when it comes down to manually overwriting every configuration. And what if those addresses are changing dynamically after restart? The following diagram shows the calling routes ...

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