July 6, 2015

Service Discovery: One, Some, or All


Service Discovery, to use the basic definition, is the mechanism in which services, residing at a non-static address, can be found on a computer network. There are, in a basic nutshell, three types of service discovery, modeled after how they offer their service endpoints to the clients. This set can be reduced to two types in most real world scenarios. Service discovery systems are designed to return endpoints, a list of one or more logical host and/or host:port or even URL lists. Read more

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