In a microservice architecture, it is very important to implement service discovery. This enables client applications to search for services without a hardcoded network location. We can implement a service discovery pattern in two ways: through client-side discovery and server-side discovery. We'll go through these two service discovery patterns in detail in the following sections.
Service discovery patterns
The client-side discovery pattern
In a microservice-based application, services need to communicate with one another to carry out a business task. In a monolithic application, communication between services is very easy, because all services are typically part of the same application. However, in a distributed system...