Awesome Microservices

A curated list of Microservice Architecture related principles and technologies.

Table of Contents

• Platforms
• Frameworks / Runtimes
• Service Toolkits
  • Polyglot
  • C
  • C++
  • C#
  • D
  • Erlang VM
  • Go
  • Haskell
  • Java VM
  • Node.js
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • Rust
• Frontend / UI
• Capabilities
  • API Gateways / Edge Services
  • Configuration & Discovery
  • Workflow Orchestration
  • Elasticity
  • Job Schedulers / Workload Automation
  • Logging
  • Messaging
  • Monitoring & Debugging
  • Reactivity
  • Resilience
  • Security
  • Serialization
  • Storage
  • Testing
• Continuous Integration & Delivery
• Web API Modeling & Documentation
  • Async
  • GraphQL
  • JSON
  • REST
• Standards / Recommendations
  • World Wide Web
  • Self-sovereignty & Decentralisation
  • HTTP/1.1
  • HTTP/2
  • QUIC
  • RPC
  • Messaging
  • Security
  • Service Discovery
  • Data Formats
  • Vocabularies
  • Unicode
• Organization Design / Team Dynamics
• Enterprise & Verticals
• Theory
  • Articles & Papers
  • Sites & Organizations
• License
• Contributing

Platforms

• 1Backend - AI-native microservices platform.
• Jolie - Open source microservice-oriented programming language.
• OpenWhisk - Serverless, open source cloud platform that executes functions in response to events at any scale.
• Pulumi - 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.

Frameworks / Runtimes

• Akka - Toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM.
• Axon (c) - An end-to-end development and infrastructure platform for easy development and running of any DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing applications on JVM.
• Ballerina - Cloud native programming language.
• Bun - Fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime.
• Dapr - Open source runtime for writing highly performant microservices using any programming language.
• Deno - JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime with secure defaults and a great developer experience.
• Eclipse Microprofile - 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.
• Finagle - Extensible RPC system for the JVM, used to construct high-concurrency servers.
• Gleam - A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems.
• GraalVM - High-performance runtime that provides significant improvements in application performance and efficiency which is ideal for microservices.
• Helidon - Collection of Java libraries for writing microservices that run on a fast web core powered by Netty.
• Ice - 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.
• Micronaut - A modern, JVM-based, full-stack framework for building modular, easily testable microservice applications.

Service Toolkits

Polyglot

• GRPC - 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#.

C

• Lwan - High-performance and scalable web server.
• uSockets - Miniscule cross-platform eventing, networking & crypto for async applications.

C++

• Cap’n Proto RPC - 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++.
• Poco - 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.
• uWebSockets - Simple, secure & standards compliant web server for the most demanding of applications.

CSharp

• Awesome Microservices .NET Core :star: - A collection of awesome training series, articles, videos, books, courses, sample projects, and tools for microservices in .NET Core.

D

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

Erlang VM

Elixir

• Phoenix - Framework for building HTML5 apps, API backends and distributed systems.
• Plug - A specification and conveniences for composable modules between web applications.

Erlang

• Cowboy - Small, fast, modular HTTP server written in Erlang.
• Mochiweb - Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.

Go

• Chi - Lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services.
• Echo - 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-micro - A distributed systems development framework.
• Go-zero - A web and rpc distributed system development framework.
• Gorilla - 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.
• RPCX - A distributed RPC service framework based on NET/RPC like Alibaba Dubbo and Weibo Motan.

Haskell

• Scotty - Micro web framework inspired by Ruby's Sinatra, using WAI and Warp.
• Servant - Type-level web DSL.
• Yesod - The Haskell RESTful web framework.

Java VM

Clojure

• Compojure - A concise routing library for Ring/Clojure.
• Duct - A server-side framework for Clojure.
• 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.

Java

• ActiveJ - Lightweight and fast library for complex high-load distributed applications and Memcached-like solutions.
• Airlift - Framework for building REST services in Java.
• Armeria - 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.
• Dropwizard - 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