Service Registry and discovery in microservices
Microservices development by itself consists of huge amounts of patterns and best practices. It is indeed not possible to cover all of them in one book. In this section, we will provide popular patterns and techniques used in microservices development.
In a microservice architecture, applications are built as a collection of small, independent services. These services need to communicate with each other to cover user requests. Service Registry and discovery is a mechanism that simplifies this communication by enabling services to find each other dynamically.
Understanding Service Registry and discovery
Imagine a central database. This database, called the Service Registry, acts as a directory of all the microservices in your system. Each service instance (i.e., an individual running a copy of a microservice) registers itself with the registry. During registration, the service provides details such as the following:
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