Mandatory services for good microservices

There are a few patterns/services that should be in place for implementing microservice-based design. This list consists of the following:

• Service discovery and registration
• Edge or proxy server
• Load balancing
• Circuit breaker
• Monitoring

We'll implement these services in this chapter to complete our OTRS system. Following is a brief overview. We'll discuss these patterns/services in detail later.

Service discovery and registration

The Netflix Eureka server is used for service discovery and registration. We created the Eureka service in the last chapter. It not only allows you to register and discover services, but also provides load balancing using Ribbon.

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