Neptune DXP as a microservice runtime

Read this introduction to microservices first.

Neptune DXP’s runtime capabilities open your options to achieve more than just the bare minimum expected of a microservice runtime, allowing you to deliver the following:

Synchronous communications with Neptune DXP microservices, backend systems, and SaaS services.
Asynchronous communications with other Neptune DXP microservices.
Webhook communications with external or backend systems and SaaS services.
Server scripts to implement your API handlers and business services logic.
Background jobs automatic tasks that need to be executed on a regular or out of hours basis.
Workflow Engine for task-based orchestrations animating Neptune DXP server scripts as tasks.
NPM modules
Database to persist in business or transient control data.