Development Notes & Links Overview This page contains a list of links and information pertaining to the development of microservices.  Links System Design Primer - Github   How to design large scale systems. Includes information on databases, caching and other topics involving creating large, scalable systems Design Microservices the Right Way - Youtube   - Michel, former CEO of flow.io walks us through how his company used OpenAPI and other tools to develop their microservices. He also talks about using Apache Kafka for messaging in his microservice world. A very large inspiration for the entire project Authentication as a Microservice   - A good talk on how to have a microservice that authenticates and authorizes users Roles vs Scopes from Stackoverflow - Good explanation on Roles and Scopes Spring Boot Apps with Kong - Good resource on auto generating a kong configuration Microsoft API Development Guidelines - Great resource of how Microsoft designs their Rest APIs