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
  • Coordination & Governance
  • Elasticity
  • Job Schedulers / Workload Automation
  • Logging
  • Messaging
  • Monitoring & Debugging
  • Reactivity
  • Resilience
  • Security
  • Serialization
  • Storage
  • Testing
• Continuous Integration & Delivery
• Web API Modeling & Documentation
  • GraphQL
  • JSON
  • REST
• Standards / Recommendations
  • World Wide Web
  • Self-sovereignty & Decentralisation
  • HTTP/1.1
  • HTTP/2
  • QUIC
  • CoAP
  • RPC
  • Messaging
  • Security
  • Service Discovery
  • Data Formats
  • Vocabularies
  • Unicode
• Organization Design / Team Dynamics
• Enterprise & Verticals
• Theory
  • Articles & Papers
  • Sites & Organizations
• License
• Contributing

Platforms

• Jolie - Open source microservice-oriented programming language.
• Kalix (c) - Platform as a Service that abstracts away the complexity of event-driven microservices.
• Lightbend (c) - Platform for building scalable reactive systems on the JVM.
• 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.
• Wing - 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.

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.
• Moleculer - Fast & powerful microservices framework for Node.js, Java, Go and Ruby.
• Open Liberty - 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.
• SmallRye - 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.
• Vert.X - 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.

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#.
• Hprose - A very newbility RPC Library, support 25+ languages now.

C

• Kore - Easy to use web application framework for writing scalable web APIs in C.
• Libasyncd - Embeddable event-based asynchronous HTTP server library for C.
• Libslack - 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.
• Lwan - High-performance and scalable web server.
• Onion - C library to create simple HTTP servers and web applications.

C++

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• 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.

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.
• Akka.NET - Toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and fault tolerant event-driven applications on .NET & Mono.
• Orleans - Provides a straightforward approach to building distributed high-scale computing applications, without the need to learn and apply complex concurrency or other scaling patterns.

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 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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 - 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.

Java

• ActiveRPC - 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 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.
• Quarkus - A Kubernetes Native Java stack tailored for OpenJDK HotSpot and GraalVM, crafted from the best of breed Java libraries and standards.
• Ratpack - Set of Java libraries that facilitate fast, efficient, evolvable and well tested HTTP applications. specific support for the Groovy language is provided.
• Spring Boot - Makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based applications.

Kotlin

• Http4k - 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.
• Ktor - Framework for building asynchronous servers and clients in connected systems using the Kotlin programming language.

Scala

• Finatra - Fast, testable, Scala HTTP services built on Twitter-Server and Finagle.
• Http4s - A minimal, idiomatic Scala interface for HTTP
• Play - The high velocity web framework for Java and Scala.
• Squbs - A suite of components enabling standardization and operationalization of Akka and Akka HTTP applications/services in a large scale, managed, cloud environment.

Node.js

• Actionhero - Multi-transport Node.js API server with integrated cluster capabilities and delayed tasks.
• Express - Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js
• Fastify - Fastify, Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js.
• FeathersJS - An open source REST and realtime API layer for modern applications.
• Hono - Small, simple, and ultrafast web framework for the Edges. It works on any JavaScript runtime.
• Koa - Next generation web framework for Node.js
• Loopback - Node.js framework for creating APIs and easily connecting