awesome-microservices

Open source microservice-oriented programming language

Platform as a Service that abstracts away the complexity of event-driven microservices

Platform for building scalable reactive systems on the JVM

Serverless, open source cloud platform that executes functions in response to events at any scale

SDK for cloud native infrastructure as code. Use your favorite language to preview and manage updates to your apps and infrastructure, and continuously deploy to any cloud (no YAML required)

Triton

Open-source cloud management platform that delivers next generation, container-based, service-oriented infrastructure across one or more data centers

Cloud-oriented programming language. It allows developers to build distributed systems that fully leverage the power of the cloud without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure

Toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM

An end-to-end development and infrastructure platform for easy development and running of any DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing applications on JVM

Cloud native programming language

Fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime

Open source runtime for writing highly performant microservices using any programming language

JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime with secure defaults and a great developer experience

An open forum to optimize Enterprise Java for a microservices architecture by innovating across multiple implementations and collaborating on common areas of interest with a goal of standardization

Erlang/OTP

Programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability

Extensible RPC system for the JVM, used to construct high-concurrency servers

A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems

High-performance runtime that provides significant improvements in application performance and efficiency which is ideal for microservices

Collection of Java libraries for writing microservices that run on a fast web core powered by Netty

Comprehensive RPC framework with support for C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, and more

Light-4j

A high throughput, low latency, small memory footprint and more productive microservices platform

A modern, JVM-based, full-stack framework for building modular, easily testable microservice applications

Modus

An open source, serverless framework for building intelligent functions and APIs, powered by WebAssembly

Fast & powerful microservices framework for Node.js, Java, Go and Ruby

A lightweight open framework for building fast and efficient cloud-native Java microservices

Orbit

Modern framework for JVM languages that makes it easier to build and maintain distributed and scalable online services

Pears

Peer-to-peer runtime, development and deployment

APIs and implementations tailored for cloud development, including Eclipse MicroProfile

Spin

An open source framework for building and running fast, secure, and composable cloud microservices with WebAssembly

ScaleCube

Toolkit for building reactive microservices for the JVM: low-latency, high-throughput, scalable and resilient

Toolkit for building reactive applications on the JVM

Vert.X Toolbox

A set of Vert.x components to build reactive microservice applications

Wangle

A framework providing a set of common client/server abstractions for building services in a consistent, modular, and composable way

A high performance, open source, general RPC framework that puts mobile and HTTP/2 first. Libraries in C, C++, Java, Go, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP and C#

A very newability RPC Library, support 25+ languages now

Easy to use web application framework for writing scalable web APIs in C

Libasyncd

Embeddable event-based asynchronous HTTP server library for C

Provides a generic agent oriented programming model, run time selection of locking strategies, functions that make writing daemons trivial and simplify the implementation of network servers and clients, &c

High-performance and scalable web server

Onion

C library to create simple HTTP servers and web applications

The Cap’n Proto C++ RPC implementation

C++ Micro Services

An OSGi-like C++ dynamic module system and service registry

Enduro/X

XATMI based service framework for GNU/Linux

Pistache

A high-performance REST toolkit written in C++

C++ class libraries for building network-based applications and servers

Sogou Workflow

Enterprise-grade programming engine aimed to satisfy most of the backend development requirements

Awesome Microservices .NET Core

A collection of awesome training series, articles, videos, books, courses, sample projects, and tools for microservices in .NET Core

Toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and fault tolerant event-driven applications on .NET & Mono

Provides a straightforward approach to building distributed high-scale computing applications, without the need to learn and apply complex concurrency or other scaling patterns

Asynchronous I/O that doesn’t get in your way, written in D

Framework for building HTML5 apps, API backends and distributed systems

Plug

A specification and conveniences for composable modules between web applications

Cowboy

Small, fast, modular HTTP server written in Erlang

Mochiweb

Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers

Chi

Lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services

Fast and unfancy HTTP server framework for Go. Up to 10x faster than the rest

Fiber

Express inspired web framework built on top of Fasthttp, the fastest HTTP engine for Go. Designed to ease things up for fast development with zero memory allocation and performance in mind

Gin

Gin is a HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance, up to 40 times faster

Goa

Design-based HTTP microservices in Go

GoFr

An opinionated microservice development framework emphasizing scalability and robustness. Designed to simplify the development of microservices

Go Chassis

A framework for rapid development of microservices in Go that is easy to integrate with some cloud ecosystems

Go kit

Distributed programming toolkit for microservices in the modern enterprise

Go-micro

A distributed systems development framework

go-zero

A web and rpc distributed system development framework

Web toolkit for the Go programming language

Iris

Fast, simple and efficient micro web framework for Go

Lura

Framework to build ultra performance API Gateways with middlewares

Micro

A distributed systems runtime for the cloud and beyond

Negroni

Idiomatic HTTP middleware for Golang

RPCX

A distributed RPC service framework based on NET/RPC like Alibaba Dubbo and Weibo Motan

Scotty

Micro web framework inspired by Ruby's Sinatra, using WAI and Warp

Servant

Type-level web DSL

Yesod

The Haskell RESTful web framework

Compojure

A concise routing library for Ring/Clojure

Duct

Minimal framework for building web applications in Clojure, with a strong emphasis on simplicity

System

Built on top of Stuart Sierra's component library, offers a set of readymade components

Tesla

Common basis for some of Otto.de's Clojure microservices

Lightweight and fast library for complex high-load distributed applications and Memcached-like solutions

Airlift

Framework for building REST services in Java

Open-source asynchronous HTTP/2 RPC/REST client/server library built on top of Java 8, Netty, Thrift and gRPC

Disruptor

High-performance inter-thread messaging library

Java framework for developing ops-friendly, high-performance, RESTful web services

Dubbo

A high-performance, java based RPC framework open-sourced by Alibaba

Conjure

Opinionated set of libraries for defining and creating RESTish/RPC servers and clients based on Feign or Retrofit as a client and Dropwizard/Jersey with JAX-RS service definitions as a server

Jersey

RESTful services in Java. JAX-RS reference implementation

A Kubernetes Native Java stack tailored for OpenJDK HotSpot and GraalVM, crafted from the best of breed Java libraries and standards

Set of Java libraries that facilitate fast, efficient, evolvable and well tested HTTP applications. specific support for the Groovy language is provided

Makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based applications

Lightweight but fully-featured HTTP toolkit written in pure Kotlin that enables the serving and consuming of HTTP services in a functional and consistent way

Framework for building asynchronous servers and clients in connected systems using the Kotlin programming language

Fast, testable, Scala HTTP services built on Twitter-Server and Finagle

A minimal, idiomatic Scala interface for HTTP

The high velocity web framework for Java and Scala

A suite of components enabling standardization and operationalization of Akka and Akka HTTP applications/services in a large scale, managed, cloud environment

Multi-transport Node.js API server with integrated cluster capabilities and delayed tasks

Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js

Fastify, Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js

An open source REST and realtime API layer for modern applications

Small, simple, and ultrafast web framework for the Edges. It works on any JavaScript runtime

Next generation web framework for Node.js

Node.js framework for creating APIs and easily connecting to backend data sources

Asynchronous HTTP microservices

A Node.js framework for building efficient and scalable server-side applications with a built-in microservices support

Seneca

A microservices toolkit for Node.js

Serverless

Build and maintain web, mobile and IoT applications running on AWS Lambda and API Gateway (formerly known as JAWS)

tRPC

End-to-end typesafe APIs

Libraries for creating reactive distributed systems using Perl 6

Next generation web framework for Perl

API-first web framework on top of Symfony with JSON-LD, Schema.org and Hydra support

Framework based on architectural principles of DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing that provides building blocks to create scalable and extensible applications

Hyperf

Hyperf is an extremely performant and flexible PHP CLI framework based on Swoole 4.5+, powered by the state-of-the-art coroutine server and a large number of battle-tested components

Stunningly fast micro-framework

Full-stack PHP framework delivered as a C-extension

Micro-framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs

Framework designed for long-running applications using . It offers advanced features like integration with the workflow engine and websocket server. It is particularly effective for microservices architecture, providing robust support for REST APIs and gRPC services

Swoft

PHP microservices coroutine framework for building high-performance web systems, APIs, middleware, and basic services

Micro-framework based on the Symfony components

Aiohttp

HTTP client/server for asyncio

Fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python

Connexion

Swagger/OpenAPI framework for Python on top of Flask with automatic endpoint validation and OAuth2 support

Bare-metal Python web API framework for building very fast app backends and microservices

Modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints

Python framework for microservices based on Werkzeug and Jinja 2

Nameko

Python framework for building microservices

Sanic

Sanic is a Flask-like Python 3.5+ web server that's written to go fast

Web framework and asynchronous networking library

Event-driven network programming engine

Web.py

Minimalist web framework for Python

Grape

An opinionated framework for creating REST-like APIs

A modern web framework for Ruby

Praxis

Framework for both designing and implementing APIs

Scorched

Light-weight web framework for Ruby

Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort

A summary of the current state of web programming in Rust

Powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust

Tarpc

RPC framework for Rust with a focus on ease of use

Tower

Library of modular and reusable components for building robust networking clients and servers

Wtx

HTTP/2 client/server framework

Awesome Micro Frontends

A curated list of resources about Micro Frontends

Universal React/Node.js application platform

Extending the microservice idea to frontend development

MiniApp standardization white paper

Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on Envoy

APIcast

APIcast is an API gateway built on top of NGINX. It is part of the Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform

Bunker Web

Web app hosting and reverse proxy secure by default

Extensible HTTP/2 web server with automatic HTTPS

Empowers you to define routing and mediation rules in a variety of domain-specific languages, including a Java-based fluent API, Spring or Blueprint XML configuration files, and a Scala DSL

Envoy

Open source edge and service proxy, from the developers at Lyft

HAProxy

Reliable, high Performance TCP/HTTP load balancer

An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices

Simple and robust facilities for loadbalancing and high-availability to Linux system and Linux based infrastructures

Kong

Open source management layer for APIs

Open source ultra performance API Gateway

Platform agnostic open source control plane for service mesh and microservices

Resilient service mesh for cloud native apps

Neutrino

Extensible software load balancer

Fast web application server built on top of Nginx

Lightweight and extensible cloud native service mesh

Modern HTTP reverse proxy with lightweight API management

Pingora

A library for building fast, reliable and evolvable network services

Skipper

HTTP router useful for decoupling routing from service logic

API Gateway on top of Spring MVC. Aims to provide a simple, yet effective way to route to APIs

A distribution of Nginx with some advanced features

A modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease

Traffic Server

High-performance building block for cloud services

Open source, fast and scalable API gateway, portal and API management platform

Vulcand

Programmatic load balancer backed by Etcd

Zuul

An edge service that provides dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, security, and more

Open-source highly-available version-controlled service configuration repository based on Git, ZooKeeper and HTTP/2

Service discovery and configuration made easy. Distributed, highly available, and datacenter-aware

Etcd

Highly-available key-value store for shared configuration and service discovery

Eureka

REST based service that is primarily used in the AWS cloud for locating services for the purpose of load balancing and failover of middle-tier servers

Modern and simple way of microservice configuration management

Nacos

Easy-to-use dynamic service discovery, configuration and service management platform

SkyDNS

Distributed service for announcement and discovery of services built on top of etcd. It utilizes DNS queries to discover available services

Provides server and client-side support for externalized configuration in a distributed system

Open source server which enables highly reliable distributed coordination

Coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows

Fault-oblivious stateful code platform

Conductor

A microservices orchestration engine

Kestra

Open source microservices event-driven, language-agnostic orchestration and scheduling platform

Temporal

Open source microservices orchestration platform for running mission critical code at any scale

Define, orchestrate, and monitor business processes across microservices

Open source in-memory data-grid. Allows you to distribute data and computation across servers, clusters and geographies, and to manage very large data sets or high data ingest rates. Mature technology

Generic cluster management framework used for the automatic management of partitioned, replicated and distributed resources hosted on a cluster of nodes

High-performance, integrated and distributed in-memory platform for computing and transacting on large-scale data sets in real-time, orders of magnitude faster than possible with traditional disk-based or flash technologies

A framework and suite of protocols for building peer-to-peer network applications

Abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and run effectively

Distributed, highly available, datacenter-aware scheduler

Redisson

Distributed and scalable Java data structures on top of Redis server

Decentralized solution for cluster membership, failure detection and orchestration

Valkey

A new project to resume development on the formerly open-source Redis project

Pub/sub/query protocol unifying data in motion, data at rest and computations. Efficiently blends traditional pub/sub with geo distributed storage, queries and computations

Celery

Asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. Focused on real-time operation and supports scheduling

Distributed, fault tolerant job scheduling system

Faktory

Language-agnostic persistent background job server

Job scheduler and runbook automation. Enable self-service access to existing scripts and tools

Schedulix

Open source enterprise job scheduling system lays down ground-breaking standards for the professional automation of IT processes in advanced system environments

Open source data collector for unified logging layer

Fully integrated open source log management platform

Flexible analytics and visualization platform

Centralized log management software. Instantly collect, centralize, and analyze logs in real-time from any platform, at any volume

Tool for managing events and logs

Loki

Like Prometheus, but for logs

Brokerless intelligent transport layer

Powerful open source messaging and integration patterns server

Aeron

Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport

Simple, fast work queue

Bull

Fast and reliable Redis-based queue for Node

Crossbar

Open source networking platform for distributed and microservice applications. It implements the open Web Application Messaging Protocol (WAMP)

Publish-subscribe messaging rethought as a distributed commit log

Malamute

ZeroMQ enterprise messaging broker

MQTT broker as a module

Open source message broker that implements the MQTT protocol

Open source, high-performance, lightweight cloud messaging system

A realtime distributed messaging platform

Distributed pub-sub messaging system

Open source Erlang-based message broker that just works

Redpanda

Streaming data platform for developers: Kafka API compatible, 10x faster, no ZooKeeper and no JVM

RocketMQ

A low latency, reliable, scalable, easy to use message oriented middleware born from alibaba massive messaging business

Open source, scalable, Erlang-based MQTT broker

Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash

Elastalert

Easy & flexible alerting for Elasticsearch

A scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and grids

An open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for Graphite, InfluxDB & OpenTSDB

Scalable realtime graphing

Application performance monitoring for Amazon Lambda

An open source, end-to-end distributed tracing

High-quality, ubiquitous, and portable telemetry to enable effective observability

An open source service monitoring system and time series database

Monitors distributed systems

Monitoring for today's infrastructure

Application performance monitor tool for distributed systems, especially designed for microservices, cloud native and container-based (Docker, K8s, Mesos) architectures

Open source enterprise-class monitoring solution

Distributed tracing system

A second-generation Reactive library for building non-blocking applications on the JVM based on the Reactive Streams Specification

Reactive Kafka

Reactive Streams API for Apache Kafka

API for asynchronous programming with observable streams. Available for idiomatic Java, Scala, C#, C++, Clojure, JavaScript, Python, Groovy, JRuby, and others

Application protocol providing Reactive Streams semantics

Awesome Chaos Engineering

A curated list of awesome chaos engineering resources

Hystrix

Latency and fault tolerance library designed to isolate points of access to remote systems, services and 3rd party libraries, stop cascading failure and enable resilience in complex distributed systems where failure is inevitable

Consensus algorithm that is designed to be easy to understand. It's equivalent to Paxos in fault-tolerance and performance

Resilience4j

Fault tolerance library designed for Java8 and functional programming

A smart HTTP client with super powers like fault tolerance, dynamic server discovery, auto balancing and reactive recovery, designed for distributed systems

Webhooks service that sends webhooks to your users with full retry schedules, exponential backoff, signature verification, and event types

Authorization management system for authoring, testing, and deploying access policies. Built scalable, fine-grained authorization in a microservice architecture

Dex

Opinionated auth/directory service with pluggable connectors. OpenID Connect provider and third-party OAuth 2.0 delegation

JSON Web Tokens are an open, industry standard RFC 7519 method for representing claims securely between two parties

Keycloak

Full-featured and extensible auth service. OpenID Connect provider and third-party OAuth 2.0 delegation

Light OAuth2

A fast, lightweight and cloud native OAuth 2.0 authorization microservices based on light-java

Provides specific authorization flows for web applications, desktop applications, mobile phones, and living room devices. Many implementations

Libraries, products, and tools implementing current OpenID specifications and related specs

Zero trust security and overlay networking as pure open source software

Open source identity infrastructure and services

System for Cross-domain Identity Management

Secures, stores, and tightly controls access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets in modern computing

Apache data serialization system providing rich data structures in a compact, fast, binary data format

Bond

Cross-platform framework for working with schematized data, broadly used at Microsoft in high scale services

BooPickle

Binary serialization library for efficient network communication. For Scala and Scala.js

Insanely fast data interchange format and capability-based RPC system

Implementations of the CBOR standard (RFC 7049) in many languages

C++11 library for serialization

Cheshire

Clojure JSON and JSON SMILE encoding/decoding

Cross-platform, language and transport-independent framework for building and consuming network services

Fastjson

Fast JSON Processor

Ffjson

Faster JSON serialization for Go

FST

Fast java serialization drop in-replacement

Jackson

A multi-purpose Java library for processing JSON data format

Jackson Afterburner

Jackson module that uses bytecode generation to further speed up data binding (+30-40% throughput for serialization, deserialization)

Kryo

Java serialization and cloning: fast, efficient, automatic

Efficient binary serialization format

Protostuff

A serialization library with built-in support for forward-backward compatibility (schema evolution) and validation

SBinary

Library for describing binary formats for Scala types

The Apache Thrift software framework, for scalable cross-language services development

Alluxio

Virtual distributed storage system

Column-oriented and providing high availability with no single point of failure

High performance NoSQL database delivering speed at scale

A distributed free and open source database with a flexible data model for documents, graphs, and key-values

AtlasDB

Transactional layer on top of a key value store

Citus

Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension

Column-oriented database management system that allows generating analytical data reports in real time

A cloud-native SQL database modelled after Google Spanner

A distributed database engineered for performance, scalability, and simplified administration

Scalable SQL database with the NoSQL goodies

Fully transactional, cloud-ready, distributed database

Fast column-oriented distributed data store

Open source distributed, scalable, and highly available search server

Open source, distributed, in-memory database for scale-out applications

Highly concurrent key/value datastore used for caching

InfluxDB

Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics

Scalable and distributed time series database written on top of Apache HBase

Pilosa

Open source, distributed bitmap index that dramatically accelerates queries across multiple, massive data sets

Open source, scalable database that makes building realtime apps easier

Secure Scuttlebutt

P2P database of message-feeds

Distributed transactional key-value database

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics that helps you explore your data universe

Goreplay

A tool for capturing and replaying live HTTP traffic into a test environment

An interactive console program that allows traffic flows to be intercepted, inspected, modified and replayed

Cross-platform, multi-protocol test doubles over the wire

Contract testing framework for HTTP APIs and non-HTTP asynchronous messaging systems

RestQA

A tool to manage microservices mocking, unit and performance testing locally with best in class developer experience

TDD to the level of software architecture

VCR

Record your test suite's HTTP interactions and replay them during future test runs for fast, deterministic, accurate tests. See the list of ports for implementations in other languages

Wilma

Combined HTTP/HTTPS service stub and transparent proxy solution

Flexible library for stubbing and mocking web services. Unlike general purpose mocking tools it works by creating an actual HTTP server that your code under test can connect to as it would a real web service

Hoverfly

Lightweight service virtualization/API simulation tool for developers and testers

Awesome CI/CD DevOps

A curated list of awesome tools for continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps

Query language designed to build client applications by providing an intuitive and flexible syntax and system for describing their data requirements and interactions

A specification for how a client should request that resources be fetched or modified, and how a server should respond to those requests

Tools for your whole API lifecycle. Use it to discuss your API with others. Generate documentation automatically. Or a test suite. Or even some code

The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) provides a consistent means to carry information through each stage of the API lifecycle

RESTful API Modeling Language, a simple and succinct way of describing practically-RESTful APIs

ReDoc

OpenAPI/Swagger-generated API Documentation

Slate

Beautiful static documentation for your API

Document RESTful services by combining hand-written documentation with auto-generated snippets produced with Spring MVC Test

A simple yet powerful representation of your RESTful API

Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One

Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax

URI Template

URI Design and Ownership

W3C specification of Decentralized identifiers (DIDs): a new type of identifier that enables verifiable, decentralized digital identity

DIDComm

Private communication methodology built atop the decentralized design of DIDs

Registry of protocols built on DIDComm, for high-trust, self-sovereign interactions over any transport

The International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) is on a mission to create the future of the global, digital economy with International Data Spaces (IDS), a secure, sovereign system of data sharing in which all participants can realize the full value of their data

Message Syntax and Routing

Semantics and Content

Conditional Requests

Range Requests

Caching

Authentication

Problem Details for HTTP APIs

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2

IETF Working Group that is chartered to deliver the next transport protocol for the Internet

A UDP-based multiplexed and secure transport

A stateless, light-weight remote procedure call (RPC) protocol

The OpenRPC Specification defines a standard, programming language-agnostic interface description for JSON-RPC 2.0 APIs

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol

MQ Telemetry Transport

Simple Text Oriented Messaging Protocol

Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol defines a mechanism for delegating authorization to a piece of software, and conveying that delegation to the software. This delegation can include access to a set of APIs as well as information passed directly to the software

OpenID Connect 1.0 is a simple identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. It allows clients to verify the identity of the end-user based on the authentication performed by an Authorization Server, as well as to obtain basic profile information about the end-user in an interoperable and REST-like manner

Paseto is everything you love about JOSE (JWT, JWE, JWS) without any of the many design deficits that plague the JOSE standards

The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2

TLS Extensions

Datagram Transport Layer Security Version 1.2

The OAuth 2.0 authorization framework

Certificate transparency

JSON Web Signature (JWS) represents content secured with digital signatures or Message Authentication Codes (MACs) using JSON-based data structures

JSON Web Token (JWT) is a compact, URL-safe means of representing claims to be transferred between two parties

SCIM: Definitions, overview, concepts, and requirements

SCIM: Core Schema, provides a platform-neutral schema and extension model for representing users and groups

SCIM: Protocol, an application-level, REST protocol for provisioning and managing identity data on the web

Mechanism for clients to discover a list of named instances of a service, using standard DNS queries

A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)

Binary JSON (BSON)

JSON for Linking Data

SBE

Simple Binary Encoding (SBE)

MSGPACK

MessagePack Specification

Vocabulary that allows you to annotate and validate JSON documents

Collaborative, community activity with a mission to create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet, on web pages, in email messages, and beyond

The Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Standard, Version 8.0.0, (Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium, 2015. ISBN 978-1-936213-10-8)

UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646

Melvin E. Conway, Datamation magazine 1968. The original article defining Conway's Law

Each team is responsible for one or more business functions (e.g. business capabilities). A team owns a code base consisting of one or more modules. Its code base is sized so as to not exceed the cognitive capacity of team. The team deploys its code as one or more services. A team should have exactly one service unless there is a proven need to have multiple services

DOES19 London. The "monoliths vs microservices" debate often focuses on technological aspects, ignoring strategy and team dynamics. Instead of technology, smart-thinking organizations are beginning with team cognitive load as the guiding principle for modern software. In this talk, we explain how and why, illustrated by real case studies

Headless commerce platform

Infosys Equinox is a human-centric commerce and marketing platform that supports rich, hyper-personalized experiences across any channel and touchpoint

Framework to build flexible and modern e-commerce applications

Headless open source commerce platform

Philosophical introduction to the design of adaptive hyperliminal systems through complexity science theories

Awesome Scalability

An updated and organized reading list for illustrating the patterns of scalable, reliable, and performant large-scale systems. Concepts are explained in the articles of prominent engineers and credible references. Case studies are taken from battle-tested systems that serve millions to billions of users

A short service mesh introduction

Model depicting the dimensions to scale a service

A practical overview, based on real-world experience, of what one would need to know in order to build microservices

Consistency as logical monotonicity

Technique to reduce the risk of introducing a new software version in production by slowly rolling out the change to a small subset of users before rolling it out to the entire infrastructure and making it available to everybody

States that it is impossible for a distributed computer system to simultaneously provide all three of the following guarantees: Consistency, Availability and Partition tolerance

The serverless computing abstraction exposes several low-level operational details that make it hard for programmers to write and reason about their code. This paper sheds light on this problem by presenting λ, an operational semantics of the essence of serverless computing

You can use this guide to understand what Java microservices are, how you architect and build them. Also: A look at Java microservice libraries & common questions

Particular way of designing software applications as suites of independently deployable services

F5's seven-part series on microservices

Critical advice about some problems regarding a microservices approach

Getting started with microservices

Guide to ponder costs and benefits of the mircoservices architectural style

Reactive systems definition

Initiative to provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking back pressure

Resource Oriented Computing for Adaptive Systems

Understanding software ecosystems: a strategic modeling approach

Approaches for managing the additional testing complexity of multiple independently deployable components

Describes three abstractions which combine to present a powerful programming model for building safe, modular, and efficient server software: Composable futures, services and filters

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation builds sustainable ecosystems and fosters a community around a constellation of high-quality projects that orchestrate containers as part of a microservices architecture

Interactive landscape of cloud native technologies

Martin Fowler's choice of articles, videos, books, and podcasts that can teach you more about the microservices architectural style

Microservice architecture patterns and best practices

Microservice mostly known antipatterns and pitfalls