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Architecture

microX is based on a pub - sub protocol using Redis for service discovery. Instead of having a central registry service that holds all the services locations, each time a service is going up is publishes itself to all the other services. Each service in that case holds a complete map of the services eco-system, making the central registry redundant and making each service more de-coupled from others. The only dependency for each service is the Redis server location.

A service can call other services by their name & version. When a service calls another service, it perform the communication directly with the service according to the service map it holds. This can improve performance over a standard broker based solutions, where the broker receives the calls and performs the forwarding to the required service, causing each call to go through at least 2 servers, where in microX once a service knows the location of another service, it contacts it directly.