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I am currently working with/researching about micro-services  software architecture (or approach to software architecture). There are tons of resources on the web but unfortunately very few of them are academic in nature. I hope that over the next coming months software/academic community will agree to have a standard definition (perhaps following a simple format similar to this one ) for this topic as this subject is starting to get hot . I personally think the name/term "micro-services" can be a bit misleading. Quite a lot of people I have talked to focus more on the word "micro" and not on the principles. I am all for light weight approaches to building software though. For the time being this term is trending and I don't see the term fading away time soon. See the buzz on twitter and youtube your self. I hope to make this post as a learning resource for people new to micro-services. I will be curating this over a period of time (so don't expect t