6 On service discovery
This chapter covers
- Why service discovery is important to cloud-based applications
- The pros and cons of service discovery vs. the Load Balancer
- Setting up a Spring Netflix Eureka Server
- Registering a Spring Boot microservice with Eureka
- Using the Spring Cloud Load Balancer library for client-side load balancing
In any distributed architecture, we need to find the hostname or IP 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 services used by an application, or something as formalized as a Universal ...
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