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What problem does Spring Cloud Bus solve that manually hitting /actuator/refresh on each instance doesn't?

Manually refreshing every instance of every service one at a time doesn't scale past a handful of services — Spring Cloud Bus connects every instance to a shared message broker so one refresh trigger fans out to every connected instance automatically.

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