| # Introduction |
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| ## What is ServiceComb Service Center |
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| Apache ServiceComb Service-Center is a Restful based service-registry that provides micro-services discovery and |
| micro-service management. It is based on Open API format and provides features like service-discovery, fault-tolerance, |
| dynamic routing, notify subscription and scalable by design. |
| It has high performance cache design and separate entity management for micro-services and their instances. |
| It provides out of box support for metrics and tracing. It has a web portal to manage the micro-services. |
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| ## Why use ServiceComb Service Center |
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| ServiceCenter is a service registry. Like other service registry, |
| its main role is to solve the problem of service registration and discovery, |
| that is the problem of dynamic routing. At the same time, |
| in order to better solve the problem of cross-team collaboration, |
| it adds support for contract (based on OpenAPI specifications) services. |
| If it is used with contract tools (Toolkit) or Java microservice development kit (Java Chassis), |
| communication Interfaces will become transparent, allowing users to focus on business development. |
