Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud - Step 24 – Understand the Need for a Naming Server

The video tutorial explains how Ribbon is used to distribute load between instances of a currency exchange service. It highlights the challenges of manually updating configurations when scaling services dynamically. The tutorial introduces naming servers, specifically Eureka, which facilitate service registration and discovery, allowing services to communicate without hardcoding URLs. This approach simplifies scaling and maintenance by dynamically managing service instances.

What challenges arise from having to change the application configuration when new servers are created?

Describe the two important features of the naming server mentioned in the text.