An architectural style organizing software as loosely coupled, interoperable services that communicate through standardized interfaces, enabling modular composition of metaverse functionality through reusable components and well-defined contracts.

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Key Principles

  • Service abstraction and encapsulation
  • Loose coupling between services
  • Contract-based interface design
  • Service reusability
  • Service composability

Technologies

  • RESTful API design patterns
  • SOAP web services (legacy)
  • Message queuing systems
  • Service registry and discovery
  • API gateway management

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