US Patent 11645127 Microservices architecture

A computing apparatus, including: a hardware computing platform; and logic to operate on the hardware computing platform, configured to: receive a microservice instance registration for a microservice accelerator, wherein the registration includes a microservice that the microservice accelerator is configured to provide, and a microservice connection capability indicating an ability of the microservice instance to communicate directly with other instances of the same or a different microservice; and log the registration in a microservice registration database.