Service Discovery

Kind: mechanism

Layer: Extensibility Core

Record: architecture:service-discovery

Severity: contextual

Scope: service, network, runtime

Canonical: Ontology

A mechanism that resolves a service name to a healthy network endpoint at call time through a registry.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Runtime Discovery and before Dynamic Binding.

Requires

• Service Registry
• Health Checks

Reinforces

• Scalability
• Resilience

Enables

• Dynamic Routing
• Failover

Conflicts with

• Hardcoded Endpoints

In tension with

• Operational Complexity

Tensions

• Service Discovery / Operational Complexity

Violated by

• Hardcoded Endpoints

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Runtime Discovery / Dynamic Binding

Enabled by

• Runtime Discovery

Linked from

• Runtime Discovery / Dynamic Binding
• Error Handling / Resilience
• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Plugin / Extensibility / IoC
• Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety
• Core Vocabulary
• Runtime Discovery / Dynamic Binding
• Severity levels
• The resolutions