intermediateService Discovery: Eureka & Client-Side Load Balancing
What's the key difference between client-side load balancing and a traditional hardware load balancer?
A hardware load balancer sits centrally, with every request funneling through one device; client-side load balancing has each CALLING service pick a healthy instance itself, using its own current view of the service registry, removing the central device as both a bottleneck and single point of failure.
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