Day 1 of Microservices: Understanding Service Discovery and Basic Configurations
A summary of the first day learning Microservices architecture, transitioning from Monolithic to Service Discovery and port configurations.
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- Began learning Microservices architecture to stay updated with modern technologies.
- Understood core concepts like Service Discovery and Service Registration.
- Studied port configurations for Product Controller, Home Controller, and Config Class.
- Followed tutorials provided by the Coder Ulagam channel.
To keep skills updated with current technology trends, a developer has started learning Microservices architecture, transitioning away from a traditional monolithic background. After grasping the foundational concepts, today marked the exploration of a major core architecture known as Service Discovery, guided by a tutorial from the Coder Ulagam channel.
The learning journey broke down the essential mechanism into two primary components:
- Service Registration: How individual microservices register their specific details with a central server.
- Service Discovery: How client services dynamically locate other registered services without hardcoding IP addresses or ports.
Transitioning from a monolithic architecture to microservices is a significant milestone for developers. While monolithic applications bundle all functionalities into a single codebase which becomes hard to maintain at scale, microservices decouple the system into independent services. This improves scalability and maintainability, though it introduces network complexity that tools like Service Discovery are designed to solve.
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In addition to theoretical concepts, the study covered exact configuration parameters and port assignments for various components:
- Eureka Server Setup: Set port to 8761 with
eureka.client.register-with-eureka = falseandeureka.client.fetch-registry = falseproperties. - Product Controller: Configured with port 8081 and application name
products-microservice. - Home Controller: Configured with port 8080 and application name
home-microservice.
Source: Dev.to
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