The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone. –Steve Jobs
Software-Defined Network (SDN) is a cornerstone of efficient cluster management. Without it, services distributed across the cluster would not be able to find each other.
Having proxies based on static configuration does not fit the world of highly dynamic scheduling. Services are created, updated, moved around the cluster, scaled and de-scaled, and so on. In such a setting, information changes all the time.
One approach we can take is to use a proxy as a central communication point and make all the services speak with each other through it. Such...