Product Roadmap

This is the product roadmap for Micro Services, Inc.

Overview

Micro is a developer first focused company. Our primary goal is to enable developers to build, share and collaborate on Micro services. We do this via an open source framework, runtime and a platform for Micro services development.

• Open Source - Open source software on GitHub

Open source

Available on GitHub

• Framework - Go Micro services development framework
• Server - A distributed system runtime for the Cloud
• Clients - Multi-language clients for the runtime

  Objectives

Our goals over the long term

• Build M3O - Micro as a Service - a fully managed microservices platform
• Onboard Users - Invite the community first to build services on the platform
• Create Services - Create value add Micro services on the platform for users
• Launch Marketplace - Offer the ability to buy, sell and share Micro services

Phase 1

Build Micro as a Service. Launch an MVP. Test a business model. Grow adoption.

• Platform MVP - a cloud platform for microservices development
  • Provides “Micro as a Service”
  • Invite only for community
  • Public cloud hosting (free)
  • Onboard users 10 at a time
• Paid product - Fully managed Micro Platform
  • Provides “Micro as a Service” to customers
  • Namespace per customer in Kubernetes
  • Subscription based $35/user/month
  • SaaS Community, Developer and Team tiers
• Platform Launch - Announce to the world
  • Public launch
  • Signup 100+ customers
  • Docs, blogs, tutorials, hackathons
  • Customer feedback and iteration

Phase 2

Create pricing tiers. Enable scaleup beyond base tiers. Drive sales.

• M3O Platform Tier - Enable real production workloads on M3O
  • Secure, scalable and supported environment
  • Events, Logs, Metrics, Tracing aggregation
  • SLAs and support guarantees
• M3O Team Tier - Collaboration features
  • Shared namespaces
  • Per namespace quotas
  • SLAs
• M3O Cloud Tier - Isolated environments
  • Spinup of isolated environments
  • Scaleway, AWS, GCP, Azure
  • Multi-region deployments

Phase 3

Provide value add beyond the platform. Enable customers to thrive based on their efforts.

• Services - Value add Micro services on the Micro platform
  • Free and paid services to consume
  • All services built in m3o/services
  • Comprehensive list of services
  • Leveraging existing APIs (Stripe, Twilio, etc)
  • Single API account for providers managed by Micro
• Network - A marketplace to buy, sell and share services
  • Ability to buy and sell services on the Micro platform
  • Transactional model: Percentage per request/service or flat 30%
  • Ability to run external “Resources” such as redis, postgres, etc

Phase 4

Build a federate distributed model for Micro. Empower others to become Micro as a Service providers.

• License M3O distribution
  • M3O self-hosted as a service
  • Focus on small cloud providers
• Enable Federation between environments
  • Enable sharing across multiple environment
  • Create a way to publish the registry globally