Chapter 9 Discover Servers and Load Balance from the Client

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We’ve gone through the belly of a whale and built a distributed service with discovery and consensus — a real distributed service! So far we’ve focused on the servers and haven’t changed the clients beyond what gRPC gives us for free. In this chapter, we’ll work on three client features that will improve our service’s availability, scalability, and user experience. We’ll enable our client to automatically:

• Discover servers in the cluster,
• Direct append calls to leaders and consume calls to followers, and
• Balance consume calls across followers.

After we’ve made these improvements, we’ll be ready to deploy!

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