Use this pattern when clients of a service or device use either server-side discovery (http://microservices.io/patterns/client-side-discovery.html) or client-side discovery (http://microservices.io/patterns/server-side-discovery.html) to determine the location of a service or device instance to which to send requests.
When to use this pattern
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