Patent attributes
Techniques are disclosed relating to implementing inter-application communication in a peer-to-peer fashion via a lease-based central registry. The central registry is configured to maintain application-layer routing information and to perform load balancing of the inter-application communication. A first application of a plurality of applications may send a lease request identifying the second application to the central registry. The first application receives a lease response that identifies a specific instance of a second application within a plurality of computing nodes and includes a resource allocation defining one or more limits on inter-application communication that the first application is permitted to perform with the specific instance of the second application. Based at least in part on the lease response, the first application performs inter-application communication directly with the specific instance of the second application subject to the one or more limits without requiring routing of the inter-application communication by another entity.
