- [Pulumi](https://pulumi.io/) - 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](https://github.com/joyent/triton) - Open-source cloud management platform that delivers next generation, container-based, service-oriented infrastructure across one or more data centers.
- [Wing](https://www.winglang.io/) - 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.
- [Axon (c)](https://axoniq.io/) - An end-to-end development and infrastructure platform for easy development and running of any DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing applications on JVM.
- [Eclipse Microprofile](https://microprofile.io/) - 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](https://github.com/erlang/otp) - Programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability.
- [GraalVM](https://www.graalvm.org/) - High-performance runtime that provides significant improvements in application performance and efficiency which is ideal for microservices.
- [Light-4j](https://github.com/networknt/light-4j) - A high throughput, low latency, small memory footprint and more productive microservices platform.
- [Modus](https://github.com/hypermodeinc/modus) - An open source, serverless framework for building intelligent functions and APIs, powered by WebAssembly.
- [Orbit](https://github.com/orbit/orbit) - Modern framework for JVM languages that makes it easier to build and maintain distributed and scalable online services.
- [Spin](https://github.com/fermyon/spin) - An open source framework for building and running fast, secure, and composable cloud microservices with WebAssembly.
- [ScaleCube](https://github.com/scalecube/scalecube) - Toolkit for building reactive microservices for the JVM: low-latency, high-throughput, scalable and resilient.
- [Wangle](https://github.com/facebook/wangle) - A framework providing a set of common client/server abstractions for building services in a consistent, modular, and composable way.
- [GRPC](http://www.grpc.io/) - 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#.
- [Libslack](http://libslack.org/) - 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.
- [Sogou Workflow](https://github.com/sogou/workflow) - Enterprise-grade programming engine aimed to satisfy most of the backend development requirements.
- [Awesome Microservices .NET Core](https://github.com/mjebrahimi/Awesome-Microservices-NetCore) :star: - A collection of awesome training series, articles, videos, books, courses, sample projects, and tools for microservices in .NET Core.
- [Akka.NET](http://getakka.net/) - Toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and fault tolerant event-driven applications on .NET & Mono.
- [Orleans](https://dotnet.github.io/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.
- [Fiber](https://github.com/gofiber/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](https://github.com/gin-gonic/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.
- [GoFr](https://github.com/gofr-dev/gofr) - An opinionated microservice development framework emphasizing scalability and robustness. Designed to simplify the development of microservices.
- [Go Chassis](https://github.com/go-chassis/go-chassis) - A framework for rapid development of microservices in Go that is easy to integrate with some cloud ecosystems.
- [Armeria](https://line.github.io/armeria/) - Open-source asynchronous HTTP/2 RPC/REST client/server library built on top of Java 8, Netty, Thrift and gRPC.
- [Conjure](https://github.com/palantir/conjure-java-runtime) - 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.
- [Quarkus](https://quarkus.io/) - A Kubernetes Native Java stack tailored for OpenJDK HotSpot and GraalVM, crafted from the best of breed Java libraries and standards.
- [Ratpack](https://ratpack.io/) - Set of Java libraries that facilitate fast, efficient, evolvable and well tested HTTP applications. specific support for the Groovy language is provided.
- [Http4k](https://www.http4k.org/) - 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.
- [Squbs](http://paypal.github.io/squbs/) - A suite of components enabling standardization and operationalization of Akka and Akka HTTP applications/services in a large scale, managed, cloud environment.
- [NestJS](https://docs.nestjs.com/) - A Node.js framework for building efficient and scalable server-side applications with a built-in microservices support.
- [Serverless](https://github.com/serverless/serverless) - Build and maintain web, mobile and IoT applications running on AWS Lambda and API Gateway (formerly known as JAWS).
- [Ecotone](https://docs.ecotone.tech/) - Framework based on architectural principles of DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing that provides building blocks to create scalable and extensible applications.
- [Hyperf](https://github.com/hyperf/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.
- [Spiral](https://spiral.dev/) - Framework designed for long-running applications using [RoadRunner](https://roadrunner.dev/). It offers advanced features like integration with the [Temporal](https://temporal.io/) workflow engine and [Centrifugo](https://centrifugal.dev/) websocket server. It is particularly effective for microservices architecture, providing robust support for REST APIs and gRPC services.
- [Swoft](https://github.com/swoft-cloud/swoft/) - PHP microservices coroutine framework for building high-performance web systems, APIs, middleware, and basic services.
- [Connexion](https://github.com/zalando/connexion) - Swagger/OpenAPI framework for Python on top of Flask with automatic endpoint validation and OAuth2 support.
- [FastAPI](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/) - Modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.
> Note that [data and control plane](https://blog.envoyproxy.io/service-mesh-data-plane-vs-control-plane-2774e720f7fc) components are not categorized at this moment.
- [APIcast](https://github.com/3scale/APIcast) - APIcast is an API gateway built on top of NGINX. It is part of the Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform.
- [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.
- [Keepalived](http://www.keepalived.org/) - Simple and robust facilities for loadbalancing and high-availability to Linux system and Linux based infrastructures.
- [Spring Cloud Gateway](https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-gateway/) - API Gateway on top of Spring MVC. Aims to provide a simple, yet effective way to route to APIs.
- [Central Dogma](https://line.github.io/centraldogma/) - Open-source highly-available version-controlled service configuration repository based on Git, ZooKeeper and HTTP/2.
- [Etcd](https://github.com/coreos/etcd) - Highly-available key-value store for shared configuration and service discovery.
- [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.
- [Spring Cloud Config](http://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-config/) - Provides server and client-side support for externalized configuration in a distributed system.
- [AWS Step Functions (c)](https://aws.amazon.com/step-functions/) - Coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows.
- [Temporal](https://github.com/temporalio/temporal) - Open source microservices orchestration platform for running mission critical code at any scale.
- [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.
- [Helix](http://helix.apache.org/) - Generic cluster management framework used for the automatic management of partitioned, replicated and distributed resources hosted on a cluster of nodes.
- [Ignite](http://ignite.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.
- [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.
- [Zenoh](https://zenoh.io/) - 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](https://github.com/celery/celery) - Asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. Focused on real-time operation and supports scheduling.
- [Rundeck (c)](http://rundeck.org/) - Job scheduler and runbook automation. Enable self-service access to existing scripts and tools.
- [Schedulix](https://github.com/schedulix/schedulix) - Open source enterprise job scheduling system lays down ground-breaking standards for the professional automation of IT processes in advanced system environments.
- [LogDNA (c)](https://logdna.com/) - Centralized log management software. Instantly collect, centralize, and analyze logs in real-time from any platform, at any volume.
- [Crossbar](https://github.com/crossbario/crossbar) - Open source networking platform for distributed and microservice applications. It implements the open Web Application Messaging Protocol (WAMP).
- [Redpanda](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/) - Streaming data platform for developers: Kafka API compatible, 10x faster, no ZooKeeper and no JVM.
- [RocketMQ](https://github.com/apache/incubator-rocketmq) - A low latency, reliable, scalable, easy to use message oriented middleware born from alibaba massive messaging business.
- [SkyWalking](https://skywalking.apache.org/) - Application performance monitor tool for distributed systems, especially designed for microservices, cloud native and container-based (Docker, K8s, Mesos) architectures.
- [Reactor.io](https://github.com/reactor) - A second-generation Reactive library for building non-blocking applications on the JVM based on the Reactive Streams Specification.
- [Reactive Kafka](https://github.com/softwaremill/reactive-kafka) - Reactive Streams API for Apache Kafka.
- [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.
- [Svix](https://svix.com) - Webhooks service that sends webhooks to your users with full retry schedules, exponential backoff, signature verification, and event types.
- [Cerbos Hub](https://www.cerbos.dev/product-cerbos-hub) - Authorization management system for authoring, testing, and deploying access policies. Built scalable, fine-grained authorization in a microservice architecture.
- [Dex](https://github.com/coreos/dex) - Opinionated auth/directory service with pluggable connectors. OpenID Connect provider and third-party OAuth 2.0 delegation.
- [JWT](http://jwt.io/) - JSON Web Tokens are an open, industry standard RFC 7519 method for representing claims securely between two parties.
- [Keycloak](https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak) - Full-featured and extensible auth service. OpenID Connect provider and third-party OAuth 2.0 delegation.
- [Light OAuth2](https://github.com/networknt/light-oauth2) - A fast, lightweight and cloud native OAuth 2.0 authorization microservices based on light-java.
- [OAuth](http://oauth.net/2/) - Provides specific authorization flows for web applications, desktop applications, mobile phones, and living room devices. Many implementations.
- [OpenID Connect](https://openid.net/certified-open-id-developer-tools/) - Libraries, products, and tools implementing current OpenID specifications and related specs.
- [Vault](https://www.vaultproject.io/) - Secures, stores, and tightly controls access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets in modern computing.
- [Bond](https://github.com/microsoft/bond/) - Cross-platform framework for working with schematized data, broadly used at Microsoft in high scale services.
- [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).
- [Kryo](https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/kryo) - Java serialization and cloning: fast, efficient, automatic.
- [Protostuff](https://github.com/protostuff/protostuff) - A serialization library with built-in support for forward-backward compatibility (schema evolution) and validation.
- [ArangoDB](https://www.arangodb.com/) - A distributed free and open source database with a flexible data model for documents, graphs, and key-values.
- [Pilosa](https://github.com/pilosa/pilosa) - Open source, distributed bitmap index that dramatically accelerates queries across multiple, massive data sets.
- [RestQA](https://github.com/restqa/restqa) - A tool to manage microservices mocking, unit and performance testing locally with best in class developer experience.
- [VCR](https://github.com/vcr/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](https://github.com/epam/Wilma) - Combined HTTP/HTTPS service stub and transparent proxy solution.
- [WireMock](http://wiremock.org/) - 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.
- [Awesome CI/CD DevOps](https://github.com/ciandcd/awesome-ciandcd) :star: - A curated list of awesome tools for continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps.
- [GraphQL](http://graphql.org/) - Query language designed to build client applications by providing an intuitive and flexible syntax and system for describing their data requirements and interactions.
### JSON
- [JSON:API](https://jsonapi.org/) - A specification for how a client should request that resources be fetched or modified, and how a server should respond to those requests.
- [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.
- [OpenAPI](https://www.openapis.org/) - The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) provides a consistent means to carry information through each stage of the API lifecycle.
- [Spring REST Docs](http://projects.spring.io/spring-restdocs/) - Document RESTful services by combining hand-written documentation with auto-generated snippets produced with Spring MVC Test.
- [DID](https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/) - W3C specification of Decentralized identifiers (DIDs): a new type of identifier that enables verifiable, decentralized digital identity.
- [DIDComm](https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-messaging) - Private communication methodology built atop the decentralized design of DIDs.
- [DIDComm Protocols](https://didcomm.org/) - Registry of protocols built on DIDComm, for high-trust, self-sovereign interactions over any transport.
- [IDSA](https://internationaldataspaces.org/) - 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.
- [GNAP](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-gnap-core-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.<sup>DRAFT</sup>
- [OIDCONN](http://openid.net/connect/) - 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](https://paseto.io/) - Paseto is everything you love about JOSE (JWT, JWE, JWS) without any of the many design deficits that plague the JOSE standards. <sup>DRAFT</sup>
- [RFC7515](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7515) - JSON Web Signature (JWS) represents content secured with digital signatures or Message Authentication Codes (MACs) using JSON-based data structures.
- [RFC7519](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7519) - JSON Web Token (JWT) is a compact, URL-safe means of representing claims to be transferred between two parties.
- [RFC7642](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7642) - SCIM: Definitions, overview, concepts, and requirements.
- [RFC7643](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7643) - SCIM: Core Schema, provides a platform-neutral schema and extension model for representing users and groups.
- [RFC7644](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7644) - SCIM: Protocol, an application-level, REST protocol for provisioning and managing identity data on the web.
- [DNS-SD](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6763) - Mechanism for clients to discover a list of named instances of a service, using standard DNS queries.
- [RFC2782](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2782) - A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV).
- [Schema.org](http://schema.org/) - 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.
- [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.
- [How Do Committees Invent?](http://www.melconway.com/Home/pdf/committees.pdf) :small_orange_diamond:<sup>PDF</sup> - Melvin E. Conway, Datamation magazine 1968. The original article defining Conway's Law.
- [Service per Team](https://microservices.io/patterns/decomposition/service-per-team.html) - 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.
- [Start with Team Cognitive Load - Team Topologies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haejb5rzKsM) :small_red_triangle:<sup>YT</sup> - 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.
- [Equinox](https://www.infosysequinox.com/) - Infosys Equinox is a human-centric commerce and marketing platform that supports rich, hyper-personalized experiences across any channel and touchpoint.
- [Autonomy, Hyperconnectivity, and Residual Causality](https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies6040081) - Philosophical introduction to the design of adaptive hyperliminal systems through complexity science theories.
- [Awesome Scalability](https://github.com/binhnguyennus/awesome-scalability) :star: - 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 Sidecar for Your Service Mesh](https://www.abhishek-tiwari.com/a-sidecar-for-your-service-mesh/) - A short service mesh introduction.
- [AKF Scale Cube](http://akfpartners.com/techblog/2008/05/08/splitting-applications-or-services-for-scale/) - Model depicting the dimensions to scale a service.
- [Building Microservices? Here is What You Should Know](https://cloudncode.blog/2016/07/22/msa-getting-started/) - A practical overview, based on real-world experience, of what one would need to know in order to build microservices.
- [Canary Release](http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CanaryRelease.html) - 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.
- [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.
- [Formal Foundations of Serverless Computing](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.05870.pdf) :small_orange_diamond:<sup>PDF</sup> - 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.
- [Java Microservices: A Practical Guide](https://www.marcobehler.com/guides/java-microservices-a-practical-guide) - 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.
- [Microservice Architecture](http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html) - Particular way of designing software applications as suites of independently deployable services.
- [Microservices - From Design to Deployment](https://www.f5.com/content/dam/f5/corp/global/pdf/ebooks/Microservices_Designing_Deploying.pdf) :small_orange_diamond:<sup>PDF</sup> - F5's seven-part series on microservices.
- [Microservices – Please, don’t](https://riak.com/posts/technical/microservices-please-dont/) - Critical advice about some problems regarding a microservices approach.
- [Microservices 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.
- [Testing Strategies in a Microservice Architecture](http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservice-testing/) - Approaches for managing the additional testing complexity of multiple independently deployable components.
- [Your Server as a Function](http://monkey.org/~marius/funsrv.pdf) :small_orange_diamond:<sup>PDF</sup> - Describes three abstractions which combine to present a powerful programming model for building safe, modular, and efficient server software: Composable futures, services and filters.
- [Cloud Native Computing Foundation](https://www.cncf.io/) - 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.
- [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 Antipatterns and Pitfalls](https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/microservices-antipatterns-and-pitfalls) - Microservice mostly known antipatterns and pitfalls.
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