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What is service discovery and why is it needed?

Answer

Service discovery is a mechanism for locating service instances dynamically (via a registry like Eureka/Consul or Kubernetes DNS). It’s needed because instances scale up/down and change IPs, so clients must discover healthy endpoints at runtime.

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