intermediateService Discovery: Eureka & Client-Side Load Balancing
Why can't you just hardcode a downstream service's IP address in a Kubernetes-deployed microservices system?
A container restart, autoscaling event, or rescheduling gives a service instance a brand new address — a hardcoded URL becomes stale the moment that happens, silently calling a dead endpoint until someone notices and redeploys with the new address.
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