AI-native microservices platform.

Open source microservice-oriented programming language.

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…

Open-source cloud management platform that delivers next generation, container-based, service-oriented 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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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

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

Peer-to-peer runtime, development and deployment.

APIs and implementations tailored for cloud development, including Eclipse MicroProfile.

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

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

Toolkit for building reactive applications on the JVM.

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

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

A high performance, open source, general RPC framework that puts mobile and HTTP/2 first. Libraries in C, C++, Java,…

High-performance and scalable web server.

Miniscule cross-platform eventing, networking & crypto for async applications.

The Cap’n Proto C++ RPC implementation.

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

XATMI based service framework for GNU/Linux.

A high-performance REST toolkit written in C++.

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

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

Simple, secure & standards compliant web server for the most demanding of applications.

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

Framework for building HTML5 apps, API backends and distributed systems.

A specification and conveniences for composable modules between web applications.

Small, fast, modular HTTP server written in Erlang.

Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.

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.

Express inspired web framework built on top of Fasthttp, the fastest HTTP engine for Go. Designed to ease things up…

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

Design-based HTTP microservices in Go.

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

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

A distributed systems development framework.

A web and rpc distributed system development framework.

Web toolkit for the Go programming language.

Fast, simple and efficient micro web framework for Go.

Framework to build ultra performance API Gateways with middlewares.

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

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

Type-level web DSL.

The Haskell RESTful web framework.

A concise routing library for Ring/Clojure.

A server-side framework for Clojure.

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

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

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

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.

High-performance inter-thread messaging library.

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

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

Opinionated set of libraries for defining and creating RESTish/RPC servers and clients based on Feign or Retrofit as a…

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…

Set of Java libraries that facilitate fast, efficient, evolvable and well tested HTTP applications. specific support…

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…

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.

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.

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

A microservices toolkit for Node.js

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

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…

Hyperf is an extremely performant and flexible PHP CLI framework based on Swoole 4.5+, powered by the state-of-the-art…

Stunningly fast micro-framework.

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

Framework designed for long-running applications using RoadRunner. It offers advanced features like integration with…

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

Micro-framework based on the Symfony components.

HTTP client/server for asyncio.

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

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.

Python framework for building microservices.

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.

Minimalist web framework for Python.

An opinionated framework for creating REST-like APIs

A modern web framework for Ruby.

Framework for both designing and implementing APIs.

Light-weight web framework for Ruby.

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

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Powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.

RPC framework for Rust with a focus on ease of use.

Asynchronous runtime for writing network applications.

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

HTTP/2 client/server framework.

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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.

High-performance, real-time API gateway and AI gateway built on NGINX and etcd, with hot-reloaded routing and 100+…

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

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…

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

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.

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.

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.

A library for building fast, reliable and evolvable network services.

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.

High-performance building block for cloud services.

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

Programmatic load balancer backed by Etcd.

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.

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

REST based service that is primarily used in the AWS cloud for locating services for the purpose of load balancing and…

Modern and simple way of microservice configuration management.

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

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

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.

A microservices orchestration engine.

Durable functions for reliable background logic, from background jobs to complex workflows.

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

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…

Generic cluster management framework used for the automatic management of partitioned, replicated and distributed…

High-performance, integrated and distributed in-memory platform for computing and transacting on large-scale data sets…

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…

Distributed, highly available, datacenter-aware scheduler.

Distributed and scalable Java data structures on top of Redis server.

Decentralized solution for cluster membership, failure detection and orchestration.

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…

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

Distributed, fault tolerant job scheduling system.

Language-agnostic persistent background job server.

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

Open source enterprise job scheduling system lays down ground-breaking standards for the professional automation of IT…

Run local code as if it were a pod in a remote Kubernetes cluster.

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,…

Tool for managing events and logs.

Like Prometheus, but for logs.

Brokerless intelligent transport layer.

Powerful open source messaging and integration patterns server.

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

Simple, fast work queue.

Fast and reliable Redis-based queue for Node.

Open source networking platform for distributed and microservice applications. It implements the open Web Application…

Publish-subscribe messaging rethought as a distributed commit log.

ZeroMQ enterprise messaging broker.

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.

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

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

Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash.

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…

Open source enterprise-class monitoring solution.

Distributed tracing system.

Distributed stream processing engine to transform, filter, aggregate, and join data streams by writing SQL.

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

Reactive Streams API for Apache Kafka.

API for asynchronous programming with observable streams. Available for idiomatic Java, Scala, C#, C++, Clojure,…

Application protocol providing Reactive Streams semantics.

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

Fault tolerance library designed for Java8 and functional programming.

Webhooks service that sends webhooks to your users with full retry schedules, exponential backoff, signature…

Authorization management system for authoring, testing, and deploying access policies. Built scalable, fine-grained…

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

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

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

Provides specific authorization flows for web applications, desktop applications, mobile phones, and living room…

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.

Runtime defense layer for AI agent memory poisoning (OWASP ASI06). Detects tampered memory entries, prompt injection…

System for Cross-domain Identity Management.

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

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

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

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.

Clojure JSON and JSON SMILE encoding/decoding.

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

Fast JSON Processor.

Faster JSON serialization for Go.

Fast java serialization drop in-replacement.

A multi-purpose Java library for processing JSON data format.

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

Java serialization and cloning: fast, efficient, automatic.

JSON-compatible zero-copy serialization format.

Efficient binary serialization format.

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

Library for describing binary formats for Scala types.

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

The fastest JSON library in C.

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.

Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension.

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.

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.

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

Open source, scalable database that makes building realtime apps easier.

Distributed transactional key-value database.

A time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension.

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

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

Open-source tool for API testing and mocking by capturing real traffic and converting it into test cases and stubs,…

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

Mocking, debugging proxy and chaos engineering for multiple protocols (HTTP, gRPC, GraphQL, LLM, MCP, Kafka, TCP and…

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

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

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

Converts API specifications (OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, gRPC etc) into executable contracts for automated testing,…

Record your test suite's HTTP interactions and replay them during future test runs for fast, deterministic, accurate…

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…

Lightweight service virtualization/API simulation tool for developers and testers.

AsyncAPI specification, the industry standard for defining asynchronous APIs.

Query language designed to build client applications by providing an intuitive and flexible syntax and system for…

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

Tools for your whole API lifecycle. Use it to discuss your API with others. Generate documentation automatically. Or a…

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

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

OpenAPI/Swagger-generated API Documentation.

Open-source API platform: beautiful API references and 1st-class OpenAPI/Swagger support.

Beautiful static documentation for your API.

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

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…

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…

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,…

OpenID Connect 1.0 is a simple identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. It allows clients to verify the…

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

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)…

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.

Simple Binary Encoding (SBE).

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…

The Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Standard, Version 8.0.0, (Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium, 2015. ISBN…

UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646.

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Each team is responsible for one or more business functions (e.g. business capabilities). A team owns a code base…

small_red_triangle:YT - DOES19 London. The "monoliths vs microservices" debate often focuses on technological aspects,…

Headless commerce platform.

Infosys Equinox is a human-centric commerce and marketing platform that supports rich, hyper-personalized experiences…

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.

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Model depicting the dimensions to scale a service.

small_orange_diamond:PDF - 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…

States that it is impossible for a distributed computer system to simultaneously provide all three of the following…

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

small_orange_diamond:PDF - F5's seven-part series on microservices.

Critical advice about some problems regarding a microservices approach.

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.

small_orange_diamond:PDF - Resource Oriented Computing for Adaptive Systems.

small_orange_diamond:PDF - Understanding software ecosystems: a strategic modeling approach.

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

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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation builds sustainable ecosystems and fosters a community around a constellation of…

Interactive landscape of cloud native technologies.

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

Microservice architecture patterns and best practices.

Microservice mostly known antipatterns and pitfalls.