Use Case
Microservices Architecture
Decomposing systems into independently deployed services.
86 providers
208 APIs
63 declared variants
Designing and operating service-oriented systems — decoupling boundaries, service discovery, inter-service communication, and the observability that keeps a distributed system debuggable.
86 API providers on the APIs.io network offer microservices architecture. The highest-rated are Azure Kubernetes Service, Convoy, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure Functions, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing.
Providers
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar 4 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Azure Kubernetes ServiceAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS) simplifies deploying a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure by offloading the...ConvoyConvoy is an open-source, cloud-native webhooks gateway used to securely ingest, persist, debug, deliver, a...Amazon API GatewayAmazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and...Microsoft Azure FunctionsAzure Functions is a serverless compute platform from Microsoft Azure enabling event-driven code execution ...
Strong 16 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Amazon Elastic Load BalancingAmazon Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple target...KongKong is the AI Connectivity Company. Its platform spans Kong Gateway (the open-source API gateway built on ...Azure Container AppsAzure Container Apps is a serverless container service for running microservices and containerized applicat...BufBuf Technologies builds the modern toolchain for Protocol Buffers and gRPC: the buf CLI, the Buf Schema Reg...Microsoft .NETMicrosoft .NET is a free, cross-platform, open source developer platform for building many different types ...Amazon EventBridgeAmazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus service that makes it easy to connect your applications with d...Amazon X-RayAWS X-Ray is a distributed tracing service that helps developers analyze and debug production applications,...Amazon Elastic BeanstalkAWS Elastic Beanstalk is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale web...Amazon ECSAmazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that makes it eas...Amazon SQSAmazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple a...IBM WebSphereIBM WebSphere is a family of enterprise software products that provide middleware and application server ca...TykTyk is an open-source API gateway and management platform supporting REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and Async APIs wi...AWS CloudWatchAmazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service that provides data and actionable insights for ...Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingAmazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps you maintain application availability and lets you automatically add or remov...FusioFusio is Apache-2.0, self-hosted API management from apioo (Christoph Kappestein, Germany). An operator ins...Amazon ProtonAWS Proton is a managed service for platform engineers that helps them publish standardized container and s...
Developing 29 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Amazon Step FunctionsAmazon Step Functions is a serverless workflow orchestration service that lets you coordinate distributed a...AWS App MeshAWS App Mesh is a service mesh based on the Envoy proxy that provides application-level networking to make ...BallerinaBallerina is an open-source programming language for the cloud, created and maintained by WSO2, whose type ...Amazon CodePipelineAWS CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you automate your release pipeli...AWS App RunnerAWS App Runner is a fully managed service that makes it easy to build, deploy, and run containerized web ap...Amazon Managed Service for PrometheusAmazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a serverless, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service for contain...API SnapAPI Snap is a developer utility platform that consolidates 13+ commonly needed REST APIs into a single, uni...Amazon App MeshAWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easy for your services...AWS Step FunctionsAWS Step Functions is a serverless orchestration service that lets you coordinate distributed applications ...AWS X-RayAWS X-Ray is a service that helps developers analyze and debug distributed applications by providing end-to...Apache APISIXApache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance cloud-native API gateway built on NGINX and etcd, d...Amazon EKSAmazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy to run Ku...ApinizerApinizer is an API management platform that provides API gateway, API portal, API testing, monitoring, and ...ChoreoWSO2 Choreo is an enterprise-grade Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and application orchestration platform...Amazon MQAmazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easy to set up...Apollo ConfigApollo is a reliable, open-source configuration management system suitable for microservice configuration m...NGINXNGINX is a high-performance open-source web server, reverse proxy, and API gateway widely used for load bal...TeamCityJetBrains TeamCity is a powerful continuous integration and deployment server that helps development teams ...ConductorConductor allows you to build a complex application using simple and granular tasks that do not need to be ...Apache DubboApache Dubbo is a high-performance, Java-based open-source RPC framework that provides service discovery, t...Amazon Serverless Application RepositoryThe AWS Serverless Application Repository enables teams, organizations, and individual developers to find, ...Amazon MemoryDBAmazon MemoryDB for Redis is a durable, in-memory database service that delivers ultra-fast performance. It...Amazon PrivateLinkAWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between virtual private clouds (VPCs), AWS services, and your...DreamFactoryAutomate the building, securing, and documenting of REST APIs for data products with built-in enterprise se...Amazon Cloud MapAmazon Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service that maintains an updated registry of application re...Apache IgniteApache Ignite is a distributed database for mission-critical high-velocity applications requiring in-memory...ZipkinZipkin is an open source distributed tracing system for gathering timing data to troubleshoot latency probl...Apache ZooKeeperApache ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing dist...Apache TomcatApache Tomcat is an open-source implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages (JSP), Java Expression...
Thin 28 Limited public surface area
Apache ZipkinApache Zipkin is a distributed tracing system that helps gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency ...Chaos MeshChaos Mesh is a CNCF graduated cloud-native chaos engineering platform that orchestrates chaos experiments ...AmbassadorAmbassador is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway built on Envoy Proxy, providing routing, load balancing, auth...Axon FrameworkAxon Framework is a Java framework for building event-driven microservices using CQRS (Command Query Respon...Microsoft Entity FrameworkMicrosoft Entity Framework is an object-relational mapping (ORM) framework for .NET developers enabling dat...Apache HttpComponentsApache HttpComponents is a set of Java HTTP components, including a feature-rich HTTP client (HttpClient 5....Apache GeodeApache Geode is an in-memory data management platform that provides real-time, consistent access to data-in...Apache ActiveMQApache ActiveMQ is an open-source, high-performance message broker written in Java, developed by the Apache...Apache CXFApache CXF is an open-source Java services framework governed by the Apache Software Foundation that helps ...Ambient MeshAmbient Mesh is a sidecar-less service mesh architecture built on Istio that simplifies microservices commu...Conductor OSSConductor OSS is the Netflix-founded, Orkes-stewarded open source workflow and agentic AI orchestration pla...AkkaAkka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven app...Apache ThriftApache Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It provides an inte...Apache CuratorApache Curator is a Java/JVM client library for Apache ZooKeeper, governed by the Apache Software Foundatio...Apache EventMeshApache EventMesh is a dynamic event-driven application runtime used to decouple the application and backend...Amazon AppSyncAmazon AppSync creates serverless GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs that simplify application development through a ...Apache CamelApache Camel is an open-source integration framework developed by the Apache Software Foundation that imple...Amazon Aurora DSQLAmazon Aurora DSQL is a distributed SQL database service optimized for transactional workloads. It provides...Vert.xEclipse Vert.x is a toolkit for building reactive applications on the JVM, providing support for multiple l...AMQPAMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) is an open standard for message-oriented middleware governed by OA...Allianz Future Cloud PlatformThe Allianz Future Cloud Platform is an internal developer platform powering cloud-native insurance microse...Weave NetWeave Net is an open source container networking plugin that creates a virtual network connecting Docker co...Apache ShiroApache Shiro is a powerful and easy-to-use Java security framework that performs authentication, authorizat...Architecture PatternArchitecture Patterns provide reusable solutions to commonly occurring software and system design problems....Apache MesosApache Mesos is a retired cluster manager (now in the Apache Attic) that provided efficient resource isolat...Apache RocketMQApache RocketMQ is a distributed messaging and streaming platform with low latency, high performance, and r...EventsEvent-driven APIs catalog. Documents the landscape of brokers, streaming platforms, schema registries, and ...Apache OpenWhiskApache OpenWhisk is an open-source serverless cloud platform that executes functions in response to events ...
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
Bean ValidationJakarta Bean Validation (formerly Java Bean Validation / JSR 380) is a Java specification providing a stand...Apache SkyWalkingApache SkyWalking is an open-source APM (Application Performance Monitoring) system that provides monitorin...BDD (Behavior-Driven Development)Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is a software development methodology that combines test-driven developme...SonySony Group Corporation is a Japanese multinational spanning electronics, gaming, entertainment, image senso...Apache AvroApache Avro is a data serialization system that provides rich data structures, a compact binary format, and...
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
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API Gateway for MicroservicesApi-First Development and MicroservicesCreate a unified data access layer across multiple microservicesDistributed LockingDistributed Systems OrchestrationEnterprise MicroservicesEvent-Driven MicroservicesID Generation for MicroservicesImplement high-throughput transactional microservicesInsurance Microservice DeploymentInter-Service MessagingInternal MicroservicesManaging SLOs across microservices architecturesMicroservice AuthMicroservice CommunicationMicroservice ConfigurationMicroservice DevelopmentMicroservice DiscoveryMicroservice IntegrationMicroservice OrchestrationMicroservice TemplatesMicroservicesMicroservices API GatewayMicroservices ArchitectureMicroservices Architecture with LibertyMicroservices AutoscalingMicroservices BackendMicroservices CommunicationMicroservices ContainerMicroservices Contract ValidationMicroservices Data LayerMicroservices DebuggingMicroservices DecouplingMicroservices DeliveryMicroservices Dependency TestingMicroservices DeploymentMicroservices DesignMicroservices GatewayMicroservices HTTP CommunicationMicroservices Hosting
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