Eureka is a tool in the Open Source Service Discovery category of a tech stack.

What is difference between Eureka and ZUUL?

Eureka belongs to “Open Source Service Discovery” category of the tech stack, while Zuul can be primarily classified under “Microservices Tools“. Eureka is an open source tool with 8.16K GitHub stars and 2.27K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Eureka’s open source repository on GitHub.

What is the use of Netflix Eureka?

With Netflix Eureka each client can simultaneously act as a server, to replicate its status to a connected peer. In other words, a client retrieves a list of all connected peers of a service registry and makes all further requests to any other services through a load-balancing algorithm.