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Service Discovery

Service Discovery and Naming in Distributed Systems

April 9, 2026March 16, 2026 by Rahul Suryawanshi

Distributed systems rely on naming and discovery to locate services that move, scale, and fail. Learn how DNS and service registries solve this problem.

Categories Distributed Systems Tags Consul, Distributed Systems, DNS, Health Checks, Istio, Kubernetes, Liveness Readiness Probes, Microservices, Naming, Service Discovery

From Constraints to Communication

April 9, 2026January 13, 2026 by Rahul Suryawanshi

Part 2 of our distributed systems series explores how communication and coordination are shaped by network, node, and time constraints. Learn key strategies for building reliable and scalable systems.

Categories Distributed Systems Tags Communication, Coordination, Distributed Locks, Distributed Systems, Eight Fallacies, Foundations, Logical Clocks, Reliability, Retries, Service Discovery
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