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Distributed Systems

Score 22.2 / 100 54 providers +3 via APIs 12 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (54)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 11 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 23 Limited public surface area
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 10 Almost no public developer surface
Unrated 2 Not yet scored

APIs with this tag (12)

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 →

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Thin 5 Limited public surface area
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented

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.

JBoss Microsoft .NET Sony

Score breakdown

Frequency
49.8
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.5
spread across providers
Quality lift
33.8
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
17.8
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Microservices 24 co-occurrences Architecture 9 co-occurrences Cloud-Native 15 co-occurrences CNCF 7 co-occurrences Asynchronous 5 co-occurrences Event Streaming 5 co-occurrences Java 12 co-occurrences Pub-Sub 5 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag54
Api tag12

Cohort brief

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The 43 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.

Providers
43
all scored
Mean Kin Score
34.8
+10.9 vs catalog 23.9
Mean Agent Readiness
16.2
+4.2 vs catalog 12
Spread
8.9–65.9
median 33.9 · σ 11
How the 43 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 2Developing 11Thin 23Emerging 6Minimal 1
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 39.3 19.8 +19.5 43
Developer Ergonomics 38.2 23.4 +14.8 43
Contract Governance 17.3 6.4 +10.9 43
Operational Transparency 24 14 +10 43
Discoverability 63.5 61.2 +2.3 43
Access Clarity 24.5 26.5 -2 43

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.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 7% 10% -3
MCP server (first-party) 7% 13% -6
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 2% 11% -9
Security 91% 97% -6
Arazzo workflows 2% 2% 0
Governance rules 67% 14% +53

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.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Synadia Communications 65.9
  2. 2 Amazon SQS 57.4
  3. 3 Etcd 51.2
  4. 4 Zeebe 48.6
  5. 5 Apollo Config 47.2
  6. 6 Apache Kafka 45.9
  7. 7 Google Cloud Tasks 44.4
  8. 8 wasmCloud 44.3
  9. 9 Azure Service Fabric 43.6
  10. 10 Dapr 42.5
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Synadia Communications 34.2
  2. 2 Restate 32.5
  3. 3 Apache Kafka 29.7
  4. 4 Amazon SQS 29.6
  5. 5 Zeebe 26.5
  6. 6 Apollo Config 26.4
  7. 7 Etcd 25.5
  8. 8 Apache BookKeeper 22.3
  9. 9 Celery 21.9
  10. 10 Scalable Systems 21
All 54 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 15 September 2026, across 27661 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

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