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Spring Microservices in Action
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Spring Microservices in Action

by John Carnell, Kalpit Patel
July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
384 pages
11h 15m
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from Spring Microservices in Action

Chapter 4. On service discovery

This chapter covers

  • Explaining why service discovery is important to any cloud-based application environment
  • Understanding the pros and cons of service discovery vs. the more traditional load-balancer approach
  • Setting up a Spring Netflix Eureka server
  • Registering a Spring-Boot-based microservice with Eureka
  • Using Spring Cloud and Netflix’s Ribbon library to use client-side load balancing

In any distributed architecture, we need to find the physical address of where a machine is located. This concept has been around since the beginning of distributed computing and is known formally as service discovery. Service discovery can be something as simple as maintaining a property file with the addresses of all the remote ...

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