Topics / #microservices
Microservices projects on GitHub
Architectural style splitting applications into small independently deployable services.
As of , the most-starred Microservices projects on GitHub are kubernetes (128.3K stars), nodebestpractices (105.7K stars) and mall (84.9K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 141 Microservices repositories with 3.5M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was pentagi, with +219 stars in a day.
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pentagi
vxcontrol/pentagi · ★ 30.8KPentAGI (Penetration testing Artificial General Intelligence) is a fully autonomous AI agent system that performs complex penetration testing tasks for you.
+161awesome-system-design-resources
ashishps1/awesome-system-design-resources · ★ 42.4KA free, curated collection of System Design resources: core concepts, networking and API fundamentals, database and caching basics, distributed systems patterns, and a huge list of interview problems, books, courses, and papers — all aimed at prepping for System Design interviews.
MemoryBear
SuanmoSuanyangTechnology/MemoryBear · ★ 7.8KMemoryBear is an AI memory system that gives AI agents human-like memory: instead of just storing knowledge statically, it perceives, extracts, associates and forgets information over time.
+48Unsupervised-Log-Anomaly-Detection-Microservices
chuansirrr/Unsupervised-Log-Anomaly-Detection-Microservices · ★ 934It is a research-grade, unsupervised anomaly detection framework for microservice logs that combines Transformer, LSTM, and statistical features with graph-based modeling and ensemble scoring to flag unusual log behavior without labeled data.
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Top 100 of 141 · by stars
- 128.3K
#1 · kubernetes/kuberneteskubernetes
Kubernetes (K8s) is an open source system for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts, handling the deployment, maintenance, and scaling of those applications.
- 105.7K
#2 · goldbergyoni/nodebestpracticesnodebestpractices
A curated, community-maintained list that summarizes the top Node.js best practices, style guides, and architectural tips, organized into chapters covering architecture, error handling, code style, testing, production readiness, security, performance, and Docker.
- 84.9K
#3 · macrozheng/mallmall
Mall is a full e-commerce system with a storefront (mall-portal) and an admin backend (mall-admin), built on Spring Boot and MyBatis, meant as a complete reference implementation of online shopping.
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spring-boot
81.7Kspring-projects/spring-boot · JavaSpring Boot is a Java framework that helps you create production-grade, Spring-powered applications and services with minimal configuration fuss.
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advanced-java
79.2Kdoocs/advanced-java · JavaA free, community-curated collection of in-depth Java backend interview questions and answers, covering message queues, search engines, caching, sharding, distributed systems, high availability, microservices, and big-data processing.
- 6
nest
76.9Knestjs/nest · TypeScriptNest is a progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, enterprise-grade server-side applications using TypeScript (while staying compatible with plain JavaScript).
- 7

awesome-scalability
74.8Kbinhnguyennus/awesome-scalabilityA curated, continuously updated reading list of articles, case studies, and talks from engineers at companies like Netflix, Uber, Facebook, and Amazon, showing concrete patterns for building scalable, reliable, and performant large-scale systems.
- 8

the-algorithm
74Ktwitter/the-algorithm · ScalaThis is the actual source code for X's (Twitter's) recommendation algorithm — the collection of services and jobs that build and serve feeds like the For You Timeline, Search, Explore, and Notifications.
- 9

architect-awesome
60.8Kxingshaocheng/architect-awesomeA curated technical roadmap in Chinese for backend engineers aiming to become architects, mapping out data structures, algorithms, concurrency, databases, middleware, and system design.
- 10

spring-framework
60.3Kspring-projects/spring-framework · JavaSpring Framework is the foundational library for the entire Spring ecosystem, providing core infrastructure (dependency injection, AOP, data access, MVC, etc.) for building enterprise Java applications.
- 11
appwrite
57.7Kappwrite/appwrite · TypeScriptAppwrite is an open-source, all-in-one backend platform for building web, mobile, and AI apps, bundling authentication, databases, storage, serverless functions, messaging, realtime, and web hosting in one place.
- 12
etcd
52.4Ketcd-io/etcd · GoA distributed, reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system, written in Go and kept consistent across machines with the Raft consensus algorithm.
- 13

awesome-design-patterns
49.4KDovAmir/awesome-design-patternsA curated list of links to resources about software and architecture design patterns, covering everything from language-specific patterns to cloud, serverless, microservices, IoT, big data, ML, databases, DevOps, mobile, front-end and security.
- 14

JeecgBoot
48.2Kjeecgboot/JeecgBoot · JavaJeecgBoot is an enterprise AI low-code platform: you describe what you need in natural language and it generates the front-end, back-end CRUD code, database tables and menu permissions, while also bundling a Dify-like AI app module with chat, RAG knowledge bases, flow orchestration and MCP plugins.
- 15

serverless
46.9Kserverless/serverless · JavaScriptThe Serverless Framework is a tool that lets you build and deploy applications on AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services, so they auto-scale, cost nothing when idle, and need minimal upkeep.
- 16

system-design
46.6Kkaranpratapsingh/system-designIt is a free course and ebook that teaches how to design large-scale systems and prepares readers for system design interviews.
- 17

awesome-compose
46.5Kdocker/awesome-compose · HTMLAwesome Compose is a curated list of Docker Compose samples: ready-made project setups showing how to integrate different services via a Compose file and manage their deployment with Docker Compose.
- 18

grpc
45.4Kgrpc/grpc · C++gRPC is a modern, high-performance open-source RPC (remote procedure call) framework that lets client and server applications communicate transparently across languages and platforms.
- 19
hyperswitch
45.3Kjuspay/hyperswitch · RustHyperswitch is an open-source, composable payments platform that lets businesses route, retry, vault, and reconcile payments across 120+ payment processors like Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, and Worldpay, either self-hosted or as a SaaS.
- 20

kong
44.3KKong/kong · LuaKong is a cloud-native API gateway that also acts as an AI and MCP gateway, handling routing, load balancing, authentication, and traffic management for microservices and LLM/agentic traffic.
- 21

awesome-system-design-resources
42.4Kashishps1/awesome-system-design-resources · JavaA free, curated collection of System Design resources: core concepts, networking and API fundamentals, database and caching basics, distributed systems patterns, and a huge list of interview problems, books, courses, and papers — all aimed at prepping for System Design interviews.
- 22

dubbo
41.6Kapache/dubbo · JavaApache Dubbo is an RPC and microservices framework — this repository is its Java implementation. It covers communication, service discovery, traffic management, observability, security, and tooling for building enterprise-grade microservices.
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fiber
40.2Kgofiber/fiber · GoFiber is an Express-inspired web framework for Go, built on top of the fasthttp engine, with fast development and high performance in mind.
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aspnetcore
38.5Kdotnet/aspnetcore · C#ASP.NET Core is an open-source, cross-platform framework from Microsoft for building modern cloud-connected applications like web apps, IoT apps, and mobile backends.
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istio
38.4Kistio/istio · GoIstio is an open-source service mesh that layers transparently onto existing distributed applications, giving you a uniform way to secure, connect, and monitor microservices with few or no code changes.
- 26

backstage
34.6Kbackstage/backstage · TypeScriptAn open source framework for building developer portals — one centralized place for your microservices, infrastructure tooling and documentation. Originally built at Spotify, now hosted by the CNCF.
- 27

spring-boot-demo
34.1Kxkcoding/spring-boot-demo · JavaA large collection of hands-on Spring Boot demos: 66 planned integration modules (55 finished) covering ORM, caching, messaging, security, databases, logging and more, meant for learning Spring Boot by example.
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kafka
34Kapache/kafka · JavaApache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.
- 29

nacos
33.5Kalibaba/nacos · JavaNacos is a platform from Alibaba for dynamic service discovery, configuration management, and service management, aimed at building cloud-native microservices and AI applications.
- 30
go-zero
33.4Kzeromicro/go-zero · Gogo-zero is a cloud-native Go framework for building web and RPC microservices, packed with built-in engineering practices. It has been serving sites with tens of millions of users for years and is listed in the CNCF Landscape.
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conductor
32.3Kconductor-oss/conductor · JavaAn open-source durable execution engine for microservices and AI agents: it persists every workflow step so long-running processes survive crashes, retries, and restarts. It originated at Netflix and is maintained by Orkes and the community.
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pentagi
30.8Kvxcontrol/pentagi · GoPentAGI (Penetration testing Artificial General Intelligence) is a fully autonomous AI agent system that performs complex penetration testing tasks for you.
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consul
30.1Khashicorp/consul · GoConsul is a distributed, highly available, data center aware solution for connecting and configuring applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure. It is built to be datacenter aware and can support any number of regions without complex configuration.
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apollo
29.8Kapolloconfig/apollo · JavaApollo is a reliable configuration management system. It centrally manages the configurations of different applications and different clusters, and is built for microservice configuration management scenarios.
- 35

system-design-academy
29.4Ksystemdesign42/system-design-academyA curated collection of system design case studies, fundamentals, interview prep, and AI engineering resources, organized as a big reference list tied to a newsletter.
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spring-cloud-alibaba
29.2Kalibaba/spring-cloud-alibaba · JavaA Spring Cloud toolkit from Alibaba: a one-stop set of components for building distributed Java applications on Alibaba middleware such as Nacos, Sentinel, RocketMQ and Seata.
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envoy
29.1Kenvoyproxy/envoy · C++Envoy is a cloud-native, high-performance proxy for edge, middle, and service-to-service traffic. It is an open-source project hosted by the CNCF.
- 38

SpringAll
28.9Kwuyouzhuguli/SpringAll · JavaA large collection of hands-on Spring tutorials in Chinese covering Spring Boot, Spring Boot & Shiro, Spring Batch, Spring Cloud, Spring Cloud Alibaba, and Spring Security & OAuth2, each paired with runnable example code and a companion blog post.
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kit
27.4Kgo-kit/kit · GoGo kit is a programming toolkit (a set of packages and best practices) for building microservices or well-structured monoliths in Go, solving common distributed-systems and architecture problems so you can focus on business logic.
- 40
dapr
26.2Kdapr/dapr · GoDapr is an open-source, CNCF-graduated runtime for building distributed applications, workflows, and AI agents. It packages durable execution, secure service-to-service communication, state management, and event-driven messaging behind one consistent set of APIs.
- 41

kratos
26Kgo-kratos/kratos · GoKratos is a lightweight Go framework for building cloud-native microservices, with small, explicit APIs so your code can focus on business logic instead of plumbing.
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nsq
25.8Knsqio/nsq · GoNSQ is a realtime distributed messaging platform — a message queue built to operate at scale, handling billions of messages per day.
- 43
kuboard-press
25.3Keip-work/kuboard-press · ShellKuboard is a free management interface built for Kubernetes (compatible with K8s 1.13+) that turns cluster management into a visual web dashboard. This repo holds the source of its v4 documentation site.
- 44

skywalking
25Kapache/skywalking · JavaApache SkyWalking is an open-source APM (Application Performance Monitoring) system for monitoring, tracing and diagnosing distributed systems. It is built for microservices, cloud native and container-based architectures.
- 45

Hystrix
24.5KNetflix/Hystrix · JavaHystrix is a Java library that isolates calls to remote services and third-party libraries, stopping cascading failures and enabling resilience in complex distributed systems.
- 46

redisson
24.4Kredisson/redisson · JavaA Java client and real-time data platform for Redis and Valkey: 50+ distributed Java objects, collections and services — maps, queues, locks, rate limiters, bloom filters, schedulers — beyond what Redis offers natively.
- 47

eShopOnContainers
24.3Kdotnet-architecture/eShopOnContainers · C#A cross-platform .NET sample app demonstrating a microservices, container-based architecture: it runs on Linux, Windows and macOS, powered by .NET 7, Docker containers and Azure Kubernetes Services.
- 48
jaeger
23.3Kjaegertracing/jaeger · GoJaeger is a distributed tracing platform that helps you monitor and troubleshoot requests as they flow through microservices-based systems.
- 49

Sentinel
23.1Kalibaba/Sentinel · JavaSentinel is a flow control, traffic shaping, circuit breaking and system adaptive overload protection component for microservices, built and battle-tested at Alibaba across years of Double-11 shopping festivals.
- 50
source-code-hunter
23.1Kdoocs/source-code-hunter · JavaThis is a curated collection of deep-dive articles that explain, from the source code itself, how popular Java frameworks and middleware actually work under the hood - including the Spring family, MyBatis, Netty, Dubbo, Redis, Tomcat, Nacos, Sentinel and RocketMQ, plus a bonus section on core JDK classes and concurrency utilities.
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grpc-go
23.1Kgrpc/grpc-go · GoThe Go implementation of gRPC: a high performance, open source, general RPC framework that puts mobile and HTTP/2 first. You use it to build gRPC clients and servers in Go.
- 52
go-micro
23.1Kmicro/go-micro · GoGo Micro is an agent harness and service framework for Go — a runtime around an agent (its tools, memory, guardrails, workflows, and services) where agents, services, and durable flows all share one runtime.
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chi
23Kgo-chi/chi · Gochi is a lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services, aimed especially at large REST APIs that stay maintainable as the project grows and changes.
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thingsboard
22.6Kthingsboard/thingsboard · JavaThingsBoard is an open-source IoT platform for device management, data collection, processing, and visualization: connect devices, store their telemetry, and build dashboards on top.
- 55

generator-jhipster
22.5Kjhipster/generator-jhipster · TypeScriptAn open-source development platform for quickly generating, developing, and deploying modern web applications and microservice architectures: you answer its prompts, and it hands you a complete full-stack codebase.
- 56

microservices-demo
21.1KGoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo · GoOnline Boutique is a sample cloud-first e-commerce web app made of 11 microservices in different languages, built by Google to demonstrate Kubernetes, gRPC, Istio and other Google Cloud technologies.
- 57

nats-server
20.9Knats-io/nats-server · GoThis is the NATS server — the high-performance core of NATS.io, a messaging system for connecting digital systems, services and devices. It's a CNCF project.
- 58

gofr
20.8Kgofr-dev/gofr · GoAn opinionated Go framework for building microservices fast — database support and observability (logs, traces, metrics) come built in, so you write service code instead of infrastructure glue.
- 59

architecture.of.internet-product
20.8Kdavideuler/architecture.of.internet-product · HTMLThis is a curated Chinese-language collection of real-world technical architecture documents from major internet companies — WeChat/Tencent, Taobao/Alibaba, Meituan-Dianping, Baidu, Qihoo 360, and global players like OpenAI, Google, Facebook, Amazon and eBay.
- 60

SpringBoot-Labs
20.1Kyudaocode/SpringBoot-Labs · JavaA large Java learning repository packed with hands-on example modules covering six Spring-related technology stacks: Spring Boot 2.X, Spring Cloud, Spring Cloud Alibaba, Dubbo, distributed message queues, and distributed transactions.
- 61

AspNetCore-Developer-Roadmap
19.7KMoienTajik/AspNetCore-Developer-RoadmapA roadmap chart showing the skills and libraries you need to learn to become an ASP.NET Core developer, updated for 2026.
- 62

yudao-cloud
19.6KYunaiV/yudao-cloud · JavaIt's an open-source enterprise admin platform: a Spring Cloud Alibaba microservices backend plus a web admin console and a user mini-program, with RBAC permissions, multi-tenancy, workflow, payment, mall, CRM, ERP, IM, AI and IoT modules built in.
- 63

Sa-Token
19.1Kdromara/Sa-Token · JavaSa-Token is a free, open-source Java authentication and authorization framework covering login, permission checks, SSO, OAuth2.0 and microservice gateway auth — one lightweight dependency for all of it.
- 64

iii
18.8Kiii-hq/iii · Rustiii is a real-time engine for your backend stack: queues, cron, HTTP, state, observability, agents, and sandboxes are collapsed into one live system surface where every service is composable and observable.
- 65

system-design-resources
18.5KInterviewReady/system-design-resourcesA curated collection of the best System Design resources on the Internet — one README that organizes engineering writeups, papers and talks into a topic-by-topic reading list.
- 66

bit
18.5Kteambit/bit · TypeScriptBit is an open-source build system for the AI era: it organizes source code into composable, reusable components and apps. Developers and AI agents create and reuse these components via MCP, preventing code duplication.
- 67

sealos
18.4Klabring/sealos · GoSealos is an AI-native cloud operating system built on Kubernetes. It unifies the whole application lifecycle — from development in cloud IDEs to production deployment and management — targeting AI apps, SaaS platforms and microservices.
- 68

fastapi-best-practices
18.2Kzhanymkanov/fastapi-best-practicesA curated collection of best practices and conventions for building FastAPI applications, based on lessons learned building production systems at a startup.
- 69

SpringCloudLearning
17.9Kforezp/SpringCloudLearning · JavaThis is the source code accompanying 'The Simplest Spring Cloud Tutorial Ever' (史上最简单的SpringCloud教程), a long-running Chinese blog series by author forezp that teaches Spring Cloud microservices step by step, covering service registration, service calls, circuit breaking, gateways, config, tracing and more.
- 70

toBeBetterJavaer
17.8Kitwanger/toBeBetterJavaer · JavatoBeBetterJavaer (二哥的Java进阶之路) is a free, community-built Chinese knowledge base of original articles covering Java fundamentals, concurrency, the JVM, enterprise development (Spring Boot, MySQL, Redis) and interview prep, meant to help readers 'become a better Java developer'.
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brpc
17.6Kapache/brpc · C++bRPC is an industrial-grade C++ RPC framework built at Baidu for high-performance systems like search, storage, machine learning, advertisement and recommendation; the name stands for 'better RPC'.
- 72

zipkin
17.5Kopenzipkin/zipkin · JavaZipkin is a distributed tracing system. It gathers timing data from your services to help troubleshoot latency problems, offering both collection and lookup of that data.
- 73

apisix
17.2Kapache/apisix · LuaApache APISIX is an open-source, dynamic, real-time, high-performance API Gateway that also serves as an AI Gateway. It provides traffic management — load balancing, canary release, circuit breaking, authentication, observability — for both north-south and east-west traffic.
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httprouter
17.1Kjulienschmidt/httprouter · GoHttpRouter is a lightweight, high performance HTTP request router (a multiplexer) for Go, built as an alternative to the default net/http mux.
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nomad
17Khashicorp/nomad · GoNomad is a workload orchestrator from HashiCorp that deploys and manages containers, non-containerized apps, and virtual machines across on-prem and cloud infrastructure at scale.
- 76

Back-End-Developer-Interview-Questions
17Karialdomartini/Back-End-Developer-Interview-QuestionsA curated list of back-end related interview questions covering design patterns, languages, databases, concurrency, distributed systems, security and more, meant to inspire interview conversations.
- 77

qiankun
16.7Kumijs/qiankun · TypeScriptQiankun is a JavaScript framework for building micro-frontend applications, letting independently built and deployed apps (React, Vue, or anything else) run together inside one host page.
- 78

open-im-server
16.7Kopenimsdk/open-im-server · GoOpenIM is an open-source instant messaging solution made up of OpenIMServer (backend) and OpenIMSDK (client library), giving developers everything needed to add chat, user management, and group management to their own apps.
- 79

zheng
16.6Kshuzheng/zheng · JavaZheng is a distributed microservices architecture and set of enterprise system modules for building Java web applications, built on Spring, SpringMVC and MyBatis. It bundles ready modules for permission management/SSO, CMS, payments, user center, WeChat platform, file storage, config center, logging and task scheduling.
- 80

springboot-learning-example
16.6KJeffLi1993/springboot-learning-example · JavaA collection of hands-on Spring Boot 2.x tutorial examples, covering core techniques from basics to advanced integrations, meant for beginners and for solidifying core Spring Boot skills.
- 81
amplication
16Kamplication/amplication · TypeScriptAmplication is a platform that generates production-ready backend microservices — APIs, data models, DTOs and more — embedding your organization's best practices, so engineers can focus on business logic instead of boilerplate.
- 82

quarkus
15.9Kquarkusio/quarkus · JavaQuarkus is an open-source Java framework for writing cloud-native applications, built from the start with Linux containers in mind.
- 83

domain-driven-hexagon
15KSairyss/domain-driven-hexagon · TypeScriptA learning resource that documents how to design backend software using Domain-Driven Design, Hexagonal/Clean/Onion Architecture and SOLID principles, with runnable TypeScript/NestJS code examples illustrating every pattern.
- 84

technology-talk
14.7Kaalansehaiyang/technology-talkA curated Chinese knowledge base of Java interview prep articles, system architecture notes, middleware deep-dives, and career advice, written by a self-described Alibaba P7 architect who goes by 'Tom哥'.
- 85

vert.x
14.7Keclipse-vertx/vert.x · JavaVert.x Core is a toolkit for building reactive, event-driven applications on the JVM, providing low-level support for HTTP, TCP, file system access, and more.
- 86
ktor
14.5Kktorio/ktor · KotlinKtor is an asynchronous framework for creating microservices, web applications and more, written in Kotlin from the ground up.
- 87

awesome-microservices
14.5Kmfornos/awesome-microservicesA curated list of Microservice Architecture related principles and technologies — a link catalog of platforms, frameworks, toolkits, standards and further reading for building service-oriented systems.
- 88

jib
14.5KGoogleContainerTools/jib · JavaJib builds optimized Docker and OCI container images for Java applications without needing a Docker daemon or deep Docker expertise.
- 89

abp
14.4Kabpframework/abp · C#ABP is an open-source web application framework for ASP.NET Core that gives you an opinionated architecture for building enterprise software, with infrastructure, startup templates, pre-built application modules, UI themes and tooling included.
- 90

workflow
14.4Ksogou/workflow · C++Sogou C++ Workflow is an enterprise-grade C++ engine for asynchronous networking and parallel computing, used internally by Sogou to power search, cloud input method, and ad services, handling billions of requests daily.
- 91

zuul
14.1KNetflix/zuul · JavaZuul is Netflix's L7 (application-layer) gateway service that handles dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, and security for traffic flowing into a set of backend services.
- 92

piggymetrics
14Ksqshq/piggymetrics · JavaPiggy Metrics is a simple personal finance app built to demonstrate the microservice architecture pattern with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Docker.
- 93

apollo-server
14Kapollographql/apollo-server · TypeScriptApollo Server is an open-source, spec-compliant GraphQL server for Node.js that lets you build a production-ready, self-documenting GraphQL API from any data source, either standalone or plugged into frameworks like Express, Connect, Hapi, or Koa.
- 94
single-spa
13.9Ksingle-spa/single-spa · JavaScriptsingle-spa is a JavaScript framework for front-end microservices, described as 'the router for easy microfrontends'. It lets you split a web app into micro frontends that coexist on the same page, each optionally written with its own framework.
- 95

pinpoint
13.9Kpinpoint-apm/pinpoint · JavaPinpoint is an APM (Application Performance Management) tool for large-scale distributed systems, mainly written for Java (with PHP and Python agent support), inspired by Google's Dapper paper.
- 96

akka-core
13.3Kakka/akka-core · ScalaAkka is a platform for building highly responsive, resilient and scalable distributed services; this repo holds its core libraries. It is used for transactional, analytical, agentic-AI, digital-twin, IoT and edge-to-cloud systems.
- 97
awesome-nestjs
13.2Knestjs/awesome-nestjsA curated list of resources, tools, libraries, boilerplates, and tutorials related to the NestJS backend framework.
- 98

mall-swarm
13.2Kmacrozheng/mall-swarm · Javamall-swarm is a microservices-based e-commerce platform built with Spring Cloud and Spring Cloud Alibaba, bundling a storefront, mobile app backend, and an admin panel with full infrastructure like a registry, config center, monitoring, and gateway.
- 99

spring-boot-admin
12.9Kcodecentric/spring-boot-admin · JavaAn open-source admin UI by codecentric: a web dashboard for monitoring and managing Spring Boot applications — health, metrics, logs, threads and configuration in one place.
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clip-as-service
12.8Kjina-ai/clip-as-service · PythonCLIP-as-service is a low-latency, high-scalability service for embedding images and text with CLIP models, so you can plug it into neural search or cross-modal retrieval apps as a microservice.
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