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pquerna committed May 23, 2010
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Expand Up @@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ Dislocate aims to eliminate the need to configure 'where' a service is
available on a network, and enable auto discovery of new services, and high available on a network, and enable auto discovery of new services, and high
performance location of these services by clients. performance location of these services by clients.


Dislocate is a combination of what monitoring, DNS and load balancers are meant
to do -- but maintaining those services on a large scale distributed system
is a significant toll on sysadmins. Dislocate aims to reduce the amount of
work that sysadmins need to do to maintain properly scaling architectures on
distributed, disperse and dynamic networks.

Clients on the localhost ask Dislocate for a service, via either HTTP or a file Clients on the localhost ask Dislocate for a service, via either HTTP or a file
on disk. Dislocate provides information about both the service, and the machine on disk. Dislocate provides information about both the service, and the machine
hosting it, so that the clients can make load balancing decisions, like hosting it, so that the clients can make load balancing decisions, like
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