Understanding the Microservice Invocation Flow In distributed architectures, OpenFeign serves as a declarative HTTP client that simplifies inter-service communication. However, Feign does not operate in isolation. It relies on a client-side load balancer to route requests to available service instan...
Spring Cloud Ribbon is a client-side load balancing library built on top of Netflix Ribbon. It distributes incoming HTTP requests across multiple service instances registered in a service registry—such as Eureka—to prevent overloading any single node. When multiple replicas of a service (e.g., eurek...
Understanding Ribbon Load balancing can be implemented in two primary ways: Server-side load balancing (e.g., using Nginx) Client-side load balancing What is Ribbon? Ribbon is a Netflix open-source project that provides client-side load balancing capabilities. It offers various configuration options...