The Inner Workings of the Service Discovery Pattern

This lesson looks at how an instance gets into the registry, and how the registry learns that it is gone.

Self-Registration vs Third-Party Registration

In terms of registration, there are two primary methodologies to consider: self-registration and third-party registration.

In the Self-Registration approach, services are responsible for registering and deregistering themselves with the Service Registry when they come online or go offline. The benefit is simplicity, because nothing outside the service is involved