- [Compojure](https://github.com/weavejester/compojure) - A concise routing library for Ring/Clojure.
- [Duct](https://github.com/weavejester/duct) - Minimal framework for building web applications in Clojure, with a strong emphasis on simplicity.
- [Liberator](http://clojure-liberator.github.io/liberator/) - Library that helps you expose your data as resources while automatically complying with all the relevant requirements of the HTTP specification.
- [Ratpack](http://ratpack.io/) - Set of Java libraries that facilitate fast, efficient, evolvable and well tested HTTP applications. Specific support for the Groovy language is provided.
- [Spring Boot](http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/) - Makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run".
- [AnyRPC](https://github.com/sgieseking/anyrpc) - Provides a common system to work with a number of different remote procedure call standards, including: JSON-RPC, XML-RPC, MessagePack-RPC.
- [C++ Micro Services](http://cppmicroservices.org/) - An OSGi-like C++ dynamic module system and service registry.
- [Akka](http://akka.io/) - Toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM.
- [Erlang/OTP](http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/users_guide.html) - Programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability.
- [Orbit](http://orbit.bioware.com/) - Modern framework for JVM languages that makes it easier to build and maintain distributed and scalable online services.
- [Camel](http://camel.apache.org/) - 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.
- [Fastjson](https://github.com/alibaba/fastjson) - Fast JSON Processor.
- [FST](https://github.com/RuedigerMoeller/fast-serialization) - Fast java serialization drop in-replacemen.
- [Jackson](https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson) - A multi-purpose Java library for processing JSON data format.
- [Jackson Afterburner](https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-module-afterburner) - Jackson module that uses bytecode generation to further speed up data binding (+30-40% throughput for serialization, deserialization).
- [Protostuff](http://www.protostuff.io/) - A serialization library with built-in support for forward-backward compatibility (schema evolution) and validation.
- [SBinary](https://github.com/harrah/sbinary) - Library for describing binary formats for Scala types.
- [ActiveMQ](http://activemq.apache.org/) - Powerful open source messaging and integration patterns server.
- [Apollo](http://activemq.apache.org/apollo/) - Faster, more reliable, easier to maintain messaging broker built from the foundations of the original ActiveMQ.
- [Beanstalk](http://kr.github.io/beanstalkd/) - Simple, fast work queue.
- [Hazelcast](http://hazelcast.org/) - 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.
- [Ignite](https://ignite.incubator.apache.org/) - 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.
- [Marathon](https://mesosphere.github.io/marathon/) - Deploy and manage containers (including Docker) on top of Apache Mesos at scale.
- [Mesos](https://mesos.apache.org/) - 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.
- [Service Fabric](http://servicefabric.io/) - Fault-tolerant decentralized peer-to-peer based cluster membership service with no single point of failure.
- [ReactiveX](http://reactivex.io/) - API for asynchronous programming with observable streams. Available for idiomatic Java, Scala, C#, C++, Clojure, JavaScript, Python, Groovy, JRuby, and others.
- [Hystrix](https://github.com/Netflix/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.
- [Raft Consensus](http://raftconsensus.github.io/) - Consensus algorithm that is designed to be easy to understand. It's equivalent to Paxos in fault-tolerance and performance.
- [Resilient HTTP](http://resilient-http.github.io/) - A smart HTTP client with super powers like fault tolerance, dynamic server discovery, auto balancing and reactive recovery, designed for distributed systems.
- [Simian Army](https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy) - Suite of tools for keeping your cloud operating in top form. Chaos Monkey, the first member, is a resiliency tool that helps ensure that your applications can tolerate random instance failures.
- [Eureka](https://github.com/Netflix/eureka/wiki/Eureka-at-a-glance) - 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.
- [SkyDNS](https://github.com/skynetservices/skydns) - Distributed service for announcement and discovery of services built on top of etcd. It utilizes DNS queries to discover available services.
- [Vault](https://vaultproject.io/) - Secures, stores, and tightly controls access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets in modern computing.
- [Terraform](https://terraform.io/) - Provides a common configuration to launch infrastructure, from physical and virtual servers to email and DNS providers.
- [AWS CodeDeploy](http://aws.amazon.com/codedeploy/) - Deployment service that enables developers to automate the deployment of applications to instances and to update the applications as required.
- [AWS ECS](http://aws.amazon.com/ecs/) - Easily run and manage Docker-enabled applications across a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.
- [CoreOS](https://coreos.com/) - Open source lightweight operating system based on the Linux kernel and designed for providing infrastructure to clustered deployments.
- [API Blueprint](https://apiblueprint.org/) - 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.
- [RAML](http://raml.org/) - RESTful API Modeling Language, a simple and succinct way of describing practically-RESTful APIs.
- [Swagger](http://swagger.io/) - A simple yet powerful representation of your RESTful API.
### Systems & SPLs
- [FAMILIAR](http://familiar-project.github.io/) - A language for importing, exporting, composing, decomposing, editing, configuring, computing "diffs", refactoring, reverse engineering, testing, and reasoning about feature models.
- [SoaML](http://www.omg.org/spec/SoaML/) - OMG Service Oriented Architecture Modeling Language.
- [SysML](http://www.omgsysml.org/) - OMG Systems Modeling Language.
- [HAL-DRAFT](https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kelly-json-hal-07) - The JSON Hypertext Application Language (HAL) is a standard which establishes conventions for expressing hypermedia controls, such as links, with JSON (_draft_).
- [WADL](http://www.w3.org/Submission/wadl/) - The Web Application Description Language specification.
- [WSDL](http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20/) - The Web Services Description Language Version 2.0 spec.
- [UNIV8](http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/) - The Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Standard, Version 8.0.0, (Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium, 2015. ISBN 978-1-936213-10-8).
- [RFC3629](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3629) - UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646.
- [AKF Scale Cube](http://akfpartners.com/techblog/2008/05/08/splitting-applications-or-services-for-scale/) - Model depicting the dimensions to scale a service.
- [CALM](http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/cidr11-bloom.pdf) - Consistency as logical monotonicity.
- [CAP Theorem](http://blog.thislongrun.com/2015/03/the-cap-theorem-series.html) - States that it is impossible for a distributed computer system to simultaneously provide all three of the following guarantees: Consistency, Availability and Partition tolerance.
- [Cloud Design Patterns](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn600223.aspx) - Contains twenty-four design patterns that are useful in cloud-hosted applications. Includes: Circuit Breaker, Competing Consumers, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Gatekeeper, Cache-Aside, etc.
- [Hexagonal Architecture](http://alistair.cockburn.us/Hexagonal+architecture) - Allows an application to equally be driven by users, programs, automated test or batch scripts, and to be developed and tested in isolation from its eventual run-time devices and databases.
- [Microservice Architecture](http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html) - Particular way of designing software applications as suites of independently deployable services.
- [Microservices and SOA](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2015/15-mar/o25architect-2458702.html) - Similarities, differences, and where we go from here.
- [Microservice Trade-Offs](http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservice-trade-offs.html) - Guide to ponder costs and benefits of the mircoservices architectural style.
- [Reactive Manifesto](http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/) - Reactive systems definition.
- [Reactive Streams](http://www.reactive-streams.org/) - Initiative to provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking back pressure.
- [The Art of Scalability](http://theartofscalability.com/) - The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise. Martin L. Abbott, Michael T. Fisher.
- [Microservices Resource Guide](http://martinfowler.com/microservices/) - Martin Fowler's choice of articles, videos, books, and podcasts that can teach you more about the microservices architectural style.
- [Microservice Patterns](http://microservices.io/) - Microservice architecture patterns and best practices.
- [OSGi Alliance](http://www.osgi.org/) - OSGi technology facilitates the componentization of software modules and applications and assures remote management and interoperability of applications and services over a broad variety of devices.
To contribute, please, [open an issue](https://github.com/mfornos/awesome-microservices/issues) or [create a pull request](https://github.com/mfornos/awesome-microservices/pulls).
