Now, it's time for the trickiest part of setting up Netflix Eureka as a discovery service, that is, setting up a working configuration for both the Eureka server and its clients: our microservice instances.
Netflix Eureka is a highly configurable discovery server that can be set up for a number of different use cases, and it provides robust, resilient, and fault-tolerant runtime characteristics. One downside of this flexibility and robustness is that it has an almost overwhelming number of configuration options. Fortunately, Netflix Eureka comes with good default values for most of the configurable parameters—at least when it comes to using them in a production environment.
When it comes to using Netflix Eureka during development, the default values cause long startup times. For example, it can take...