This was really eye-opening in a few ways. Can you expand on the function of “central registries”, ie, is this used to track all consumers of APIs to microservices?
Yea, a centralized schema registry like the one Buf provides would be helpful for all consumer apps to understand the schema/structure needed to communicate w/ arbitrary microservices. That way, they can build their own clients/serializers etc.
This doesn't solve the problem of knowing "who my upstream callers" are - that's a problem I've seen be solved w/ some sort of inter-service auth system (eg: built on top of spiffe/spire etc).
This was really eye-opening in a few ways. Can you expand on the function of “central registries”, ie, is this used to track all consumers of APIs to microservices?
Yea, a centralized schema registry like the one Buf provides would be helpful for all consumer apps to understand the schema/structure needed to communicate w/ arbitrary microservices. That way, they can build their own clients/serializers etc.
This doesn't solve the problem of knowing "who my upstream callers" are - that's a problem I've seen be solved w/ some sort of inter-service auth system (eg: built on top of spiffe/spire etc).