Tech Session: Service Discovery & Orchestration

What is the primary function of Service Discovery?

• Scaling services up and down

• Checking the health of services

• Registering and locating services

• Managing the sequence in which services interact

Which of these is NOT a Service Discovery tool?

• Eureka

• Consul

• Apache Kafka

• Zookeeper

What is the main function of Service Orchestration in a microservices architecture?

• Coordinating multiple services to achieve a business process

• Registering services

• Making services discoverable

• Monitoring services

What does Kubernetes primarily help with?

• Service registration

• Load balancing

• Health checking

• Service Orchestration

In the context of Service Discovery, what is the function of tools like Etcd or Consul?

• They act like a 'phone book' for services

• They orchestrate how services interact

• They store the data for each service

• They perform load balancing

Which company developed its own service discovery tool named Eureka?

• Netflix

• Airbnb

• Uber

• Twitter

In which scenario would DNS-based Service Discovery be less suitable?

• Environments where services are not frequently scaled up or down

• When services can have long-lived connections

• In dynamic and high-scale environments where services are frequently added or removed

• When there's a need for simple service discovery without additional tooling

Which of these tools is typically used for workflow orchestration?

• Kubernetes

• Docker Swarm

• Apache Airflow

• Etcd

Which Service Orchestration method is best suited for managing the lifecycles of containers in large, dynamic environments?

• DNS-based Service Discovery

• Container Orchestration

• API-based Service Discovery

• Workflow Orchestration

Which company uses Kubernetes for Service Orchestration to manage its platform?

• Uber

• Netflix

• Twitter

• Airbnb