Eureka Insights

What is Eureka?

Eureka is a REST (Representational State Transfer) based service registry used primarily in the field of microservices architecture. It is developed by Netflix and is used for locating services for the purpose of load balancing and failover of middle-tier servers. Eureka consists of two main components: Eureka Server and Eureka Client. The Eureka Server is the application that holds the information about all the registered services, and Eureka Clients are microservices that register themselves with the Eureka Server, advertising their location (IP address and port). Other microservices can then query the Eureka Server to discover the location of the registered services, enabling them to communicate with each other. It helps in dynamically routing traffic to available services and is crucial for building resilient and scalable microservices applications.

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What other technologies are related to Eureka?

Eureka Competitor Technologies

Consul

Consul is a service mesh solution that includes service discovery, configuration, and segmentation functionality. It is a direct competitor to Eureka for service discovery.

mentioned alongside Eureka in 1% (82) of relevant job posts

Zookeeper

Zookeeper is a distributed coordination service. While it offers more general-purpose coordination than Eureka, it can be used for service discovery and is therefore a competitor.

mentioned alongside Eureka in 1% (61) of relevant job posts

Eureka Complementary Technologies

Hystrix

Hystrix is a latency and fault tolerance library. It can be used alongside Eureka for resilience in microservices.

mentioned alongside Eureka in 34% (278) of relevant job posts

Zuul

Zuul is an API Gateway. It can be used with Eureka for routing requests to the appropriate services.

mentioned alongside Eureka in 24% (385) of relevant job posts

Netflix Hystrix

Netflix Hystrix is a fault tolerance library designed to isolate points of access to remote systems, services and 3rd party libraries, stop cascading failure and enable resilience in complex distributed systems. It is often used with Eureka in microservice architectures.

mentioned alongside Eureka in 70% (70) of relevant job posts