Microservices have to find one or more appropriate microservice to initiate a kind of conversation towards fulfilling the identified business functionality. As we all know, there are several service discovery mechanisms, service registries, and repositories. In the traditional web service world, we used to play around with WSDL and UDDI for service interfacing, discovery, and initiation. In the earlier era too, we were tinkering with RPC, RMI, CORBA, EJB, Jini, and so on. In the recent past, RESTful service interactions are the most common way of establishing service connectivity and service fulfillment.
However, microservices are quite distinct in the sense that they are more dynamic, varied, and versatile and many in numbers. Further on, services are predominantly made to run inside virtual machines and containers. Virtualized and containerized environments...
