# gigya/microdot

Microdot: An open source .NET microservices framework

Repository: https://github.com/gigya/microdot
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gigya-microdot
Language: C#
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: microservice, orleans, distributed-systems, configuration, service-discovery
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-11-16T08:31:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3419, "days_push": 1021, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1536, forks 231 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:59.939198+00:00)

## What it is
Microdot is an open source .NET microservices framework (a 'microservice chassis') that provides a service container, interface-based inter-service RPC, service discovery, client-side load balancing, distributed tracing, health checks, and hierarchical configuration. It integrates with Microsoft Orleans to simplify building Orleans-based virtual actor services.

## Use cases
- build microservices in .NET without boilerplate
- implement inter-service RPC between C# services
- add service discovery and client-side load balancing
- get distributed tracing and logging across services
- run Orleans virtual actors as microservices
- hierarchical configuration with online change detection
- health checks for service monitoring

## When to choose
- you are building .NET/C# microservices and want an integrated chassis
- you use or plan to use Orleans virtual actors
- you want built-in service discovery, tracing, and caching without assembling many libraries

## When to avoid
- you are not on the .NET ecosystem
- you need a framework with frequent updates and large community (development has slowed)
- you prefer lightweight minimal libraries or Kubernetes-native patterns over a framework chassis

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: maintenance
- function: rpc, service-discovery, caching, logging, tracing, monitoring, configuration-management, middleware, http-server
- domain: microservices, backend, developer-tools
- platform: dotnet, windows, cross-platform
- tags: orleans, microservice-chassis, service-container, health-checks, dependency-injection, client-side-load-balancing, linux

## Member repositories
- gigya/microdot (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:59.939198+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:31:04.462777+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gigya/microdot (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:59.939198+00:00, sha 14e7425759c1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.