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Interesting. I definitely think service discovery and such are going to become a lot more popular in the near future.

Do you mean service discovery as in UDDI? It sounds a bit like it's old SOA ideas all over again - they failed and it would be beneficial to understand why before we make the same mistakes.

Do you have links/pointers? I'm familiar with several well-running systems of this type, so I'm just curious.

Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Description_Discovery...

says Microsoft, IBM, et.al. abandoned their efforts of providing public service discovery infrastructure. Doing it the same for REST may just be repeating of old mistakes.

Not sure, I've not heard of UDDI before. Mostly I mean, in a really general sense, that servers come up and become part of a cluster or group of systems providing a service.

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