The platform is a cloud platform for Micro services development.
Overview
The Micro platform is focused on being the simplest way to build, share and collaborate on microservices. This started
as a framework and now moves into a platform which continues to remove friction from the path of the developer.
We’ll keep climbing the stack to continue on this journey. From platform to services and beyond.
Features
The features which will be included in the platform
Managed services - Services will run in the cloud and managed by default.
Auto configuration - Services will be auto configured with the required registry, broker, etc
Simplified debugging - Stats, logs and tracing will be available in an easy and clean way for every service
Connect from anywhere - Ability to connect and leverage the platform and services from anywhere
MVP
Our MVP goal is to deliver Micro as a Service. We’re taking the open source micro toolkit
and running it as a service in the cloud. The end state should be a runtime which offers an API, web dashboard,
CLI, slack bot and service proxy all hosted so that developers don’t have to host it themselves. We’ll
provide interconnectivity via a transport, broker and service registry which can be accessed by running
local micro instance which connects to the service in the cloud.
Hosting will be provided by global deployments in every region using the micro run command.
We’ll be dogfooding these efforts on an ongoing basis by writing microservices which run on the platform
and are entirely open source for others to consume. Ultimately our goal is to see the network with
base level services that don’t have to be written or run by anyone else.
We want to introduce this by end of Q1 2020 as an invite-only beta mode for our community to test. Most of this
software will be entirely open source and available to run so anyone can likely connect but we’ll
look to build identity and api tokens in for access control.
Ultimately we’ll provide a M3O (pronounced ehm-three-oh) as a global platform for Micro services.
Goals
We have the following high level goals:
Bootstrap Micro OSS in the cloud aka Micro as a service
Dogfood by writing services or a complete end-to-end service
Consolidate learnings into roadmap and bug-feature list
Develop the network to allow connectivity from anywhere
Enable sharing of services and discovery
Hosting services on the platform
Auto configuration of services
Observability and debugging; stats, logs, trace
Tokenized access control
Invite-only service for the community using Github
Onboard users and iterate based on the feedback
Beyond MVP
Beyond the MVP we want to move into focusing on extending the platform, including team based collaboration and private hosting.
Privately hosted Micro platform
Team based features and access control
Paid personal and team subscription
Value add services beyond the runtime
Micro as a service
Ultimately we want to deliver micro as a service as a shared platform for microservice development. Anything a company
ends up building themselves should be available as a shared runtime for all developers everywhere in the world. This should
not exclude those who want to self host and access the system as if it were part of their own.
Summarised view
Micro Platform - a shared platform for service development
Multi-Cloud {AWS, Azure, GCP, DO} - highly available and invisible to the user
Multi-Client {Go, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Rust} - empower developers in any language
Services {Platform, Utility, Orchestration, Web} - base level services delivered by micro itself