Distributed Systems
Providers using this tag (46)
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 10 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 18 Limited public surface area
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 10 Almost no public developer surface
Unrated 1 Not yet scored
APIs with this tag (6)
Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →
Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
Companies reaching this through an API (3)
These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Distributed Systems” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.
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Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 37 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Distributed Systems, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract Quality | 35.2 | 17.6 | +17.6 | 37 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 40.1 | 23.2 | +16.9 | 37 |
| Operational Transparency | 25 | 13.7 | +11.3 | 37 |
| Contract Governance | 15.3 | 6.3 | +9 | 37 |
| Discoverability | 60.4 | 58.1 | +2.3 | 37 |
| Access Clarity | 25.2 | 26.5 | -1.3 | 37 |
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 8% | 14% | -6 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 8% | 12% | -4 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 3% | 11% | -8 |
| Security | 95% | 98% | -3 |
| Arazzo workflows | 3% | 2% | +1 |
| Governance rules | 63% | 14% | +49 |
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
- 1 Synadia Communications 67
- 2 Amazon SQS 58.7
- 3 Etcd 49.9
- 4 Zeebe 48.6
- 5 Apollo Config 45.8
- 6 Apache Kafka 45.4
- 7 Google Cloud Tasks 44.3
- 8 Azure Service Fabric 44.2
- 9 wasmCloud 42.5
- 10 Lightbend 40.6
- 1 Restate 32.5
- 2 Synadia Communications 32
- 3 Apache Kafka 29.7
- 4 Amazon SQS 29.6
- 5 Zeebe 26.5
- 6 Apollo Config 26
- 7 Etcd 25.5
- 8 Apache BookKeeper 22.3
- 9 Celery 21.9
- 10 RabbitMQ 20.9
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