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Build a Service Discovery System

Build the registry behind Consul, Eureka, and Kubernetes service discovery: registration with TTLs, tags + metadata, health checks, load-balanced lookup, replicated HA, and the Kubernetes/service-mesh patterns. Used by every microservice architecture.

intermediate10 lessons4 chapters10 graded exercisesPython
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What you’ll have built

Chapter by chapter. Every step is a graded exercise.

  • The Discovery Problem
  • Service Registry
  • Health & Lookup
  • Production
Starts in Python — solve in the language you choose in the editor, same tests either way.

Curriculum

4 chapters, 10 lessons. Each lesson is a short read, one graded exercise, and a quiz.

  1. 1Why Service Discovery?Read · exercise · quiz
  2. 2Service RegistryRead · exercise · quiz
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Build a Service Discovery System