Service discovery is an architecture pattern used for components (micro-services) to locate each other. The DCAE platform uses [server-side discovery](http://microservices.io/patterns/server-side-discovery.html) and is using [Consul](https://www.consul.io/) as the service registry solution.
-## Service registration
+## Service Registration
All components are required to register with Consul in order to be discovered. There are two methods of registration: self and 3rd party. The DCAE platform uses 3rd party registration which means components don't actually make the registration calls but defers that responsibility to a platform service.