Use Case
Microservices Architecture
Decomposing systems into independently deployed services.
89 providers
204 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.
89 API providers on the APIs.io network offer microservices architecture. The highest-rated are Azure Kubernetes Service, Amazon API Gateway, Convoy, Microsoft Azure Functions, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling.
Providers
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 19 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Amazon API GatewayAmazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and...ConvoyConvoy is an open-source, cloud-native webhooks gateway used to securely ingest, persist, debug, deliver, a...Microsoft Azure FunctionsAzure Functions is a serverless compute platform from Microsoft Azure enabling event-driven code execution ...Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingAmazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps you maintain application availability and lets you automatically add or remov...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 Load BalancingAmazon Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple target...Azure Container AppsAzure Container Apps is a serverless container service for running microservices and containerized applicat...Amazon Elastic BeanstalkAWS Elastic Beanstalk is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale web...Microsoft .NETMicrosoft .NET is a free, cross-platform, open source developer platform for building many different types ...Amazon SQSAmazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple a...TykTyk is an open-source API gateway and management platform supporting REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and Async APIs wi...KongKong is the AI Connectivity Company. Its platform spans Kong Gateway (the open-source API gateway built on ...IBM WebSphereIBM WebSphere is a family of enterprise software products that provide middleware and application server ca...Amazon Step FunctionsAmazon Step Functions is a serverless workflow orchestration service that lets you coordinate distributed a...Amazon ECSAmazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that makes it eas...AWS CloudWatchAmazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service that provides data and actionable insights for ...Amazon ProtonAWS Proton is a managed service for platform engineers that helps them publish standardized container and s...TemporalTemporal is an open-source durable execution platform for building reliable long-running distributed workfl...
Developing 31 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Amazon CodePipelineAWS CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you automate your release pipeli...AWS App MeshAWS App Mesh is a service mesh based on the Envoy proxy that provides application-level networking to make ...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...Amazon API GatewayAmazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintai...API SnapAPI Snap is a developer utility platform that consolidates 13+ commonly needed REST APIs into a single, uni...FusioFusio is Apache-2.0, self-hosted API management from apioo (Christoph Kappestein, Germany). An operator ins...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...ChoreoWSO2 Choreo is an enterprise-grade Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and application orchestration platform...Amazon EKSAmazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy to run Ku...Amazon MQAmazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easy to set up...ApinizerApinizer is an API management platform that provides API gateway, API portal, API testing, monitoring, and ...Apollo ConfigApollo is a reliable, open-source configuration management system suitable for microservice configuration m...Apache APISIXApache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance cloud-native API gateway built on NGINX and etcd, d...ConductorConductor allows you to build a complex application using simple and granular tasks that do not need to be ...Amazon Serverless Application RepositoryThe AWS Serverless Application Repository enables teams, organizations, and individual developers to find, ...Amazon App MeshAWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easy for your services...Amazon MemoryDBAmazon MemoryDB for Redis is a durable, in-memory database service that delivers ultra-fast performance. It...Chaos MeshChaos Mesh is a CNCF graduated cloud-native chaos engineering platform that orchestrates chaos experiments ...Amazon PrivateLinkAWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between virtual private clouds (VPCs), AWS services, and your...TeamCityJetBrains TeamCity is a powerful continuous integration and deployment server that helps development teams ...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 DubboApache Dubbo is a high-performance, Java-based open-source RPC framework that provides service discovery, t...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 TomcatApache Tomcat is an open-source implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages (JSP), Java Expression...NGINXNGINX is a high-performance open-source web server, reverse proxy, and API gateway widely used for load bal...Apache ZooKeeperApache ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing dist...Apache ZipkinApache Zipkin is a distributed tracing system that helps gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency ...
Thin 29 Limited public surface area
AmbassadorAmbassador is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway built on Envoy Proxy, providing routing, load balancing, auth...BallerinaIntegration problems have been solved by restricted drag-and-drop tools/DSLs or generic programming languag...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...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 CXFApache CXF is an open-source Java services framework governed by the Apache Software Foundation that helps ...Test-Driven DevelopmentA software development approach where tests are written before the actual code, following a red-green-refac...AkkaAkka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven app...Apache EventMeshApache EventMesh is a dynamic event-driven application runtime used to decouple the application and backend...Apache ThriftApache Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It provides an inte...Conductor OSSConductor OSS is the Netflix-founded, Orkes-stewarded open source workflow and agentic AI orchestration pla...Apache CuratorApache Curator is a Java/JVM client library for Apache ZooKeeper, governed by the Apache Software Foundatio...Amazon AppSyncAmazon AppSync creates serverless GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs that simplify application development through a ...Amazon Aurora DSQLAmazon Aurora DSQL is a distributed SQL database service optimized for transactional workloads. It provides...Apache CamelApache Camel is an open-source integration framework developed by the Apache Software Foundation that imple...Vert.xEclipse Vert.x is a toolkit for building reactive applications on the JVM, providing support for multiple l...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...AMQPAMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) is an open standard for message-oriented middleware governed by OA...BufBuf is a modern developer platform for Protocol Buffers and gRPC, providing a CLI toolchain, schema registr...Apache RocketMQApache RocketMQ is a distributed messaging and streaming platform with low latency, high performance, and r...Apache MesosApache Mesos is a retired cluster manager (now in the Apache Attic) that provided efficient resource isolat...Architecture PatternArchitecture Patterns provide reusable solutions to commonly occurring software and system design problems....Ambient MeshAmbient Mesh is a sidecar-less service mesh architecture built on Istio that simplifies microservices commu...EventsEvent-driven APIs catalog. Documents the landscape of brokers, streaming platforms, schema registries, and ...RestateRestate is a durable execution platform for building resilient distributed applications, microservice orche...
Emerging 7 Early or largely undocumented
Apache SkyWalkingApache SkyWalking is an open-source APM (Application Performance Monitoring) system that provides monitorin...Apache OpenWhiskApache OpenWhisk is an open-source serverless cloud platform that executes functions in response to events ...Bean ValidationJakarta Bean Validation (formerly Java Bean Validation / JSR 380) is a Java specification providing a stand...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...WSDLWSDL (Web Services Description Language) is a W3C standard XML format for describing web service interfaces...
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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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