June 2016
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
8h 6m
English
A service registry is simply a database that maintains a list of services, their endpoints, and quite often additional service metadata which is used when consuming the service. Some service discovery technologies, like Consul, will perform health checks and maintain health state of service instances.
There are a number of different technologies commonly used as a service registry. Each technology offers a similar set of features. Let’s first have a look at the features of a conceptual service discovery store, and then the common technologies used.
One of the more important features is that the service registry is highly available and scalable. All our services will be using the ...
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