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by natch 4058 days ago
What is a coordination service used for?
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danesparza 4057 days ago
Generally speaking: Application/service configuration and service discovery. Another example of this is http://consul.io
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contingencies 4056 days ago
Roughly speaking, high availability (HA) clusters, and horizontal (ie. "add more nodes running an identical service to the pool") scaling.
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