EurekaWhat 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 API Tools category of a tech stack.
Eureka Pros & Cons
Pros of Eureka
- ✓Easy setup and integration with spring-cloud
- ✓Web ui
- ✓Health checking
- ✓Monitoring
- ✓Circuit breaker
- ✓Netflix battle tested components
- ✓Service discovery
- ✓Open Source
Cons of Eureka
- ✗Nada
Eureka Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Eureka?
Consul
Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable.
Zookeeper
A centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. All of these kinds of services are used in some form or another by distributed applications.
etcd
etcd is a distributed key value store that provides a reliable way to store data across a cluster of machines. It’s open-source and available on GitHub. etcd gracefully handles master elections during network partitions and will tolerate machine failure, including the master.
