SE-Radio Episode 264: James Phillips on Service Discovery

Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers

• Episode: SE-Radio Episode 264: James Phillips on Service Discovery
• Website: Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers
• Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/se-radio
• Duration: 00:55:29
• Published: 2016-08-03 01:35

Charles Anderson talks with James Phillips about service discovery and Consul, an open-source service discovery tool. The discussion begins by defining what service discovery is, what data is stored in a service discovery tool, and some scenarios in which it’s used. Then they dive into some details about the components of a service discovery tool and how reliability is achieved as a distributed system. Finally, James discusses Consul, the functions it provides, and how to integrate it with existing applications, even if they use configuration files instead of a service discovery tool.