What is Eureka?
Eureka is a REST (Representational State Transfer) based service that is primarily used in the AWS cloud for locating services for the purpose of load balancing and failover of middle-tier servers.
Eureka is a tool in the Open Source Service Discovery category of a tech stack.
Why developers like Eureka
Easy setup and integration with spring-cloud
Web ui
Monitoring
Health checking
Circuit breaker
Netflix battle tested components
Service discovery
Open Source