Service discovery is client work — even when a platform hides the wiring.

New walkthrough: two Quarkus provider instances register in Consul with health checks. The consumer uses SmallRye Stork to discover them by name and round-robin between them. Stop one instance and watch the client adapt.

Registration, health, selection — three jobs, three owners.

https://www.the-main-thread.com/p/service-discovery-stork-consul

#Quarkus #ServiceDiscovery #Consul #SmallRyeStork #Java #Microservices

Reverse Proxy Deep Dive Part 3: The Hidden Complexity of #ServiceDiscovery

https://startwithawhy.com/reverseproxy/2025/07/26/Reverseproxy-Deep-Dive-Part3.html

Updated AWS::ServiceDiscovery::Service

Use the ServiceAttributes property to specify custom metadata for an AWS Cloud Map service.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-resource-servicediscovery-service.html #servicediscovery #cloudformation

Looking for stories where an organization evaluated a #servicemesh like #Istio, #Consul, #Linkerd, etc. and decided it wasn't a good fit.

Why not? What alternatives did you consider? What did you land on for #ServiceDiscovery and service-to-service authentication? Why?

#DevOps #platformengineering

#ServiceMesh? #AWSAppMesh? #AWSCloudMap? How do your services find each other, and how do you keep control over private network ranges, especially during migration?

#AWS #CloudMigration #ServiceDiscovery