Netflix blazed the path to the cloud, then paved a road, and with it came a modern microservice architecture. As soon as a system is split into distinct units, IPC and API management are driven to the forefront of platform needs. Failure is inevitable, so we provide latency-based load balancing, concurrency limits, retries, hedging, observability, fallbacks, and testing failed services as out-of-the-box features. From driving cutting edge REST technologies, to achieving millisecond latency gRPC, we enable JVM developers to focus on entertaining the world instead of reinventing the wheel.