Elastic scaling in a (micro)service oriented architecture
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Describes ResearchGate’s approach to service discovery and elastic scaling in a microservice-oriented PHP environment using Consul and HAProxy. Explains how they avoid hardcoded endpoints or a single central load‑balancer by using these tools to detect services, route traffic, and automatically boot or shut down service instances to react to load and improve server utilization.
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