Service publishing

Now that we have an API, an easy-to-navigate specification for it, and a service discovery layer that manages the distribution of requests to healthy service instances, developers just need to know where to look for our service. This is where Service Publishing comes into play.

You can think of service publishing as a directory to search for, or simply browse, services that want to be discovered for use. If you are old enough to know what the white pages are, that is a close analogy. Only, imagine that this directory not only helps you look up services, but manages security, offers advanced monitoring, and can even add a façade that allows API requests and responses to be translated on the fly. A façade could even call multiple APIs on the backend with a single composite API endpoint on the frontend. Many even support the mocking of APIs, so you can take your design-first approach, build an OpenAPI specification, then have one team implement a simple...