What is Micro?
Micro is a framework for cloud native development.
Micro addresses the key requirements for building cloud native services. It leverages the microservices architecture pattern and provides a set of services which act as the building blocks
Micro is a tool in the Microservices Tools category of a tech stack.
Micro is an open source tool with 12K GitHub stars and 1K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Micro's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Micro?
Companies
9 companies reportedly use Micro in their tech stacks, including Sixt, Nuxeo, and LTK.
Developers
43 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Micro.
Pros of Micro
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Micro's Features
- Authentication
- Config Management
- Key-Value Storage
- API Gateway
- Service Discovery
- Event Streaming
Micro Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Micro?
Istio
Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.
Zuul
It is the front door for all requests from devices and websites to the backend of the Netflix streaming application. As an edge service application, It is built to enable dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, and security. Routing is an integral part of a microservice architecture.
Jersey
It is open source, production quality, framework for developing RESTful Web Services in Java that provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a JAX-RS (JSR 311 & JSR 339) Reference Implementation. It provides it’s own API that extend the JAX-RS toolkit with additional features and utilities to further simplify RESTful service and client development.
linkerd
linkerd is an out-of-process network stack for microservices. It functions as a transparent RPC proxy, handling everything needed to make inter-service RPC safe and sane--including load-balancing, service discovery, instrumentation, and routing.
Azure Service Fabric
Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices. Service Fabric addresses the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud apps.
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