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layout: intro
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page_title: Consul vs. Custom Solutions
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sidebar_title: Custom Solutions
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description: >-
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As a codebase grows, a monolithic app often evolves into a Service Oriented
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Architecture (SOA). A universal pain point for SOA is service discovery and
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configuration. In many cases, this leads to organizations building home grown
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solutions. It is an undisputed fact that distributed systems are hard;
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building one is error-prone and time-consuming. Most systems cut corners by
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introducing single points of failure such as a single Redis or RDBMS to
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maintain cluster state. These solutions may work in the short term, but they
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are rarely fault tolerant or scalable. Besides these limitations, they require
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time and resources to build and maintain.
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# Consul vs. Custom Solutions
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As a codebase grows, a monolithic app often evolves into a Service Oriented
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Architecture (SOA). A universal pain point for SOA is service discovery and
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configuration. In many cases, this leads to organizations building home grown
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solutions. It is an undisputed fact that distributed systems are hard; building
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one is error-prone and time-consuming. Most systems cut corners by introducing
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single points of failure such as a single Redis or RDBMS to maintain cluster
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state. These solutions may work in the short term, but they are rarely fault
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tolerant or scalable. Besides these limitations, they require time and resources
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to build and maintain.
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Consul provides the core set of features needed by an SOA out of the box. By
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using Consul, organizations can leverage open source work to reduce the time
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and effort spent re-inventing the wheel and can focus instead on their business
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applications.
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Consul is built on well-cited research and is designed with the constraints of
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distributed systems in mind. At every step, Consul takes efforts to provide a
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robust and scalable solution for organizations of any size.
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