Peer-to-peer application layer distributed mesh routing

A method, comprising:

• sending, by a first application of a plurality of applications to a computer system configured to maintain application-layer routing information and perform load balancing of peer-to-peer inter-application communication, a request for routing information for a second application and a third application of the plurality of applications, wherein the plurality of applications are registered with the computer system, and wherein the computer system performs load balancing based on maintaining the application-layer routing information in a central registry for respective ones of the plurality of applications registered with the computer system;
• receiving, by the first application from the computer system, routing information for the second application and the third application;
• locally storing, by the first application in a mesh instance of a first computing node on which the first application is implemented, the routing information for the second application and the third application;
• and
• sending, by the first application to the mesh instance of the first computing node, a request for second and third computing nodes, wherein the request specifies the second application implemented by the second computing node and the third application implemented by the third computing node, and wherein the mesh instance of the first computing node is configured to:
• determine, based on the locally stored routing information, routing information for the second and third applications;
• forward, to a mesh instance of the second computing node, the request for the second computing node;
• and
• forward, to a mesh instance of the third computing node, the request for the third computing node, wherein the sending is performed without routing by another entity.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that are executable by a first application implemented by a first computing node of a plurality of computing nodes to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, from a computer system, routing information for at least two of a plurality of applications implemented by the plurality of computing nodes, wherein the plurality of applications are registered with the computer system, and wherein the computer system performs load balancing of peer-to-peer inter-application communication by implementing a central registry that maintains inter-application layer routing information for respective ones of the plurality of applications registered with the computer system;
• storing the received routing information locally to a mesh instance of the first computing node, wherein the received routing information is for a specific instance of a second application and a specific instance of a third application within the plurality of computing nodes;
• and
• sending, to the mesh instance of the first computing node, a request for second and third computing nodes, wherein the request specifies the second application implemented by the second computing node and the third application implemented by the third computing node, and wherein the mesh instance of the first computing node is configured to:
• determine, based on the locally stored routing information, routing information for the second and third applications;
• forward, to a mesh instance of the second computing node, the request for the second computing node;
• and
• forward, to a mesh instance of the third computing node, the request for the third computing node, wherein the sending is performed independent of routing of the peer-to-peer inter-application communication by another entity.