Jul 21, 2017 · 1 min read
Totally agree, and that’s why I have a whole paragraph in the introduction that talks about this.
Quote: Many different services provide this functionality; the top three that come to mind are ZooKeeper, etcd, and Consul. All of these are really awesome, and some even provide additional services such as DNS based discovery, but they require you to maintain and run them in your project, not to mention they cost money in the form of CPU time and disk space!
Sometimes you don’t need all the features that a fully fledged system provides, and some services that you want to discover can be behind a load balancer or other type of HA set up.
