Connectiker is a concept for building micro-services as a lego architecture, meaning that any component is a building block to fast ship a microservice. Each Connectiker component does do one thing only and one thing well.

Connectiker is a set of packages that help with building Distributed Systems.

 +------------------+       +-----------+                                   +---------+         +-----------+
 | My MicroService  |   =   | xConnect  | ----- with pluggable addons --->  | xAddons |     +   | xService  |          
 +------------------+       +----+------+                                   +-----+---+         +-----------+  

xConnect provides the abstraction layers & managers for pluggable xAddons used in a microservice architecture, the basic interfaces & managers to define expectations and vocabulary.

xAddons are pluggable components built on top of xConnect. They are the core components that make up the xServices. They provide an essential foundation for your incoming projects, the core components needed to start a new service. xAddons provide the core "building blocks" required to build out your application.

xService is a package for building micro-services, everything that is needed to fast start a new project (a server, a client, a message broker,... etc).