intermediateSpring Cloud Gateway
What does lb://order-service mean in a Gateway route definition?
It tells the Gateway to resolve order-service through service discovery and client-side load balancing, rather than pointing at one hardcoded address — the same discovery mechanism used by Feign and WebClient elsewhere in this category.
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