rodrigorodrigues/microservices-design-patterns

This project is a classic 'awesome-list' style reference repository, currently serving as a historical artifact of microservices architecture from the mid-2010s. With 184 stars and zero recent velocity (age >7 years), it lacks any competitive moat or unique IP. Its defensibility is near zero because it provides standard implementations of well-documented patterns that are now either natively supported by cloud providers (AWS App Mesh, Google Cloud Service Directory) or easily generated by LLMs. From a competitive standpoint, it is displaced by modern 'infrastructure-from-code' tools and more comprehensive, actively maintained reference architectures like Microsoft's eShopOnContainers or the Google Cloud Microservices Demo. The use of older libraries like Netflix Hystrix (which entered maintenance mode years ago) further reduces its utility for modern production environments. For a technical investor, this project represents legacy educational material rather than a viable software product.