Chapter 7 Server-to-Server Service Discovery

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So far we’ve built a secure, stand-alone gRPC web service. Now let’s start our journey toward making our stand-alone service into a distributed one by incorporating service discovery so that our service automatically handles when a node is added to or removed from our cluster.

If you’re not familiar with service discovery, don’t worry — you will be after reading this chapter. Service discovery is one of the coolest things about distributed services: machines automatically discovering other machines! (When Skynet becomes self aware and takes over, we can thank service discovery for playing a part.) Here’s a quick overview of the many benefits of service discovery.

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