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Microservices Patterns

by wshobson

Microservices Patterns is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by wshobson in agents.

38.8K stars4.1K forkson wshobson/agentsAdded 2026/08/13Repository updated 2026/08/05
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Install Microservices Patterns
Copy Microservices Patterns into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.
terminal
npx degit https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/main/plugins/backend-development/skills/microservices-patterns ~/.claude/skills/microservices-patterns

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/wshobson/agents.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file
plugins/backend-development/skills/microservices-patterns/SKILL.md in wshobson/agents
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/microservices-patterns
Collection
One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
DevOps — 798 skills

What Microservices Patterns does

Microservices Patterns helps design microservices architectures with service boundaries, event-driven communication, and resilience patterns. Use it when building distributed systems, decomposing monoliths, or implementing microservices.

Microservices Patterns is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Microservices Patterns comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentic-ai, agents, ai-agents and anthropic.

Documentation

README

Microservices Patterns

Master microservices architecture patterns including service boundaries, inter-service communication, data management, and resilience patterns for building distributed systems.

When to Use This Skill

  • Decomposing monoliths into microservices
  • Designing service boundaries and contracts
  • Implementing inter-service communication
  • Managing distributed data and transactions
  • Building resilient distributed systems
  • Implementing service discovery and load balancing
  • Designing event-driven architectures

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Microservices Patterns

  • What else does wshobson publish alongside Microservices Patterns?

    Microservices Patterns is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from wshobson/agents, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Design Principles, Architecture Patterns and Before You Build. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Microservices Patterns does, and is maintained by wshobson in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the wshobson/agents page.

  • How does Microservices Patterns compare to other DevOps skills?

    Microservices Patterns ranks #40 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Microservices Patterns against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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