Dubbo

Dubbo is a name that may refer to two distinct topics in geography and software. In Australia, Dubbo is a city located in the Orana region of New South Wales. It is the administrative centre of the Dubbo Region and serves as a regional hub for commerce, education, and healthcare in western New South Wales. The city lies on the Macquarie River and is known for attractions such as the Taronga Western Plains Zoo and the Dubbo Regional Botanic Garden. The local economy is driven by agriculture, education, logistics, and tourism. Transport links include the Newell Highway and Mitchell Highway, Dubbo Airport, and rail services.

Apache Dubbo is an open-source, high-performance RPC framework for building microservices and service-oriented architectures. It originated with Alibaba Group and was later donated to the Apache Software Foundation, where it is maintained as Apache Dubbo. The framework provides remote procedure calls, service discovery and registration, load balancing, fault tolerance, and monitoring. It supports multiple protocols and data formats and is primarily Java-based, with community-supported implementations for other languages.