Principles

The global and technical design principles followed in the Microservice Dungeon.

Global Design Principles

In MSD, we maintain a couple of global design principles, supposed to help in decision making. Every time we arrive at some priorization decision, these global principles should help deciding the issue. Therefore, this is a living document.

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Technical Principles

(tbd - just keywords so far)

  • JSON as configuration format (so that it can be reused in REST APIs)
Last modified January 11, 2026: updated documentation structure according to board decision 8.1.26 (f699eea)