Eureka is a REST (Representational State Transfer) based service that is primarily used in the AWS cloud for locating services for the purpose of load balancing and failover of middle-tier servers.

At Netflix, Eureka is used for the following purposes apart from playing a critical part in mid-tier load balancing.

• For aiding Netflix Asgard - an open source service which makes cloud deployments easier, in

  • Fast rollback of versions in case of problems avoiding the re-launch of 100's of instances which could take a long time.
  • In rolling pushes, for avoiding propagation of a new version to all instances in case of problems.

• For our cassandra deployments to take instances out of traffic for maintenance.

• For our memcached caching services to identify the list of nodes in the ring.

• For carrying other additional application specific metadata about services for various other reasons.

[Eureka Google Group] (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/eureka_netflix)

Please see [wiki] (https://github.com/Netflix/eureka/wiki) for detailed documentation.