exercise 3

Question 1

Seneca.js

Answer 1

Microservices application building framework in node.js

Question 2

What is special about Seneca?

Answer 2

lets you build message based microservice systems with ease
- you don’t need to know where the other services are located, how many of them there are, or what they do

Question 3

three core features of Seneca

Answer 3

• Pattern matching
• Transport independence: can send messages between services in many ways, all hidden from your business logic
• Componentization: Functionality is expressed as a set of plugins which can be composed as microservices

Question 4

Seneca Actions

Answer 4

• function that is identified by a JSON object
• created through the seneca.add method