SE-Radio Episode 264: James Phillips on Service Discovery

Charles Anderson talks with James Phillips about service
discovery and Consul, an open-source service discovery tool. The
discussion begins by defining what service discovery is, what
data is stored in a service discovery tool, and some scenarios in
which it’s used. Then they dive into some details about the
components of a service discovery tool and how reliability is
achieved as a distributed system. Finally, James discusses
Consul, the functions it provides, and how to integrate it with
existing applications, even if they use configuration files
instead of a service discovery tool.