US 10,097,431 B1 · Routing to tenant services utilizing a service directory

Abstract

A routing service provides functionality for selecting an instance of a tenant service for processing a service request and for providing the network location of the selected instance to a service client. The service client may utilize the network location to make a service request to the selected instance of the tenant service. The routing service might also route the service request to the selected instance of a tenant service. The selection of a particular instance of a tenant service for processing a service request may be made based upon various factors including, but not limited to, attributes of the service client making the request and/or attributes of instances of the tenant service being called. The selection of an instance of a tenant service might also be made to implement segmentation, to implement A/B testing, to load balance service requests, and/or to gradually deploy new versions of a tenant service.

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A system, comprising:

at least one computing device configured to implement one or more services, wherein the one or more services are configured to:
receive a request from a service client for a network location of an instance of a tenant service for processing a service request generated by the service client, wherein the request for the network location comprises metadata;
enable segmentation of the service request to provide one or more other service requests to one or more other service clients such that the one or more other service requests are applied to at least two or more different versions of the tenant service;
in response to receiving the request, select a particular instance of the tenant service for processing the service request from a plurality of instances of the tenant service, the selection being based, at least in part, on the segmentation of the service request and the metadata provided in the request;
and
provide a network location of the particular instance of the tenant service to the service client in response to the request.

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A computer-implemented method for routing a service request to an instance of a tenant service, the method comprising:

receiving a service request from a service client, wherein the request comprises metadata;
in response to receiving the service request, selecting an instance of the tenant service for processing the service request from a plurality of instances of the tenant service, the selection of the instance of the tenant service made to provide segmentation of the service request generated by the service client from one or more other service requests generated by one or more other service clients, the one or more other service requests being applied to at least two or more different versions of the tenant service, the selection being based, at least in part, on the metadata provided in the request;
identifying a network location of the selected instance of the tenant service for processing the service request;
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providing the service request to the selected instance of the tenant service at the identified network location.

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A computer-implemented method for providing a location of an instance of a tenant service for processing a service request, the method comprising:

receiving a request from a service client for a network location of an instance of a tenant service for processing a service request generated by the service client, wherein the request for the network location comprises metadata;
in response to receiving the request, selecting one or more instances of the tenant service for processing the service request from a plurality of instances of the tenant service, the selection of the one or more instances of the tenant service made to provide segmentation of the service request generated by the service client from one or more other service requests generated by one or more other service clients, the one or more other service requests being applied to at least two or more different versions of the tenant service, the selection being based, at least in part, on the metadata provided in the request;
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providing a network location of the one or more selected instances of the tenant service for processing the service request to the service client.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Routing to tenant services utilizing a service directory

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Abstract

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