Method to build a modular distributed network device using microservices architecture

A distributed network routing system comprising:

• a network including a plurality of network routing apparatus distributed across the network at network access points;
• wherein each network routing apparatus comprises:
• a plurality of functional modules selected from the group consisting of a processor, a data storage module, an input/output module, a shared memory, and a network module;
• wherein each network routing apparatus is run by an operating system comprising a system space and a user space,
• wherein each functional module in the plurality functions modules is driven by a micro-services based software architecture comprising one selected from the group consisting of a TCP/IP stack, a protocol serializer, a protocol de-serializer, an in-memory data store, and one or more utility applications, and
• wherein the software architecture is at least partially retained in the user space of the operating system of the network routing apparatus.

A method of providing microservices-based network services in a network comprising a plurality of interconnected network routing apparatus, wherein each network routing apparatus comprises a plurality of functional modules selected from the group consisting of a processor, a data storage module, an input/output module, a shared memory, and a network module;

• wherein each network routing apparatus is run by an operating system comprising a system space and a user space, wherein the network services are driven by a software architecture comprising a TCP/IP stack, a publish-subscribe bus, a protocol serializer, a protocol de-serializer, an in-memory data store and one or more utility applications, and the method comprising the steps of:
• initializing each network routing apparatus,
• creating, via one or more forwarding utility applications in the one or more utility applications, one or more tables for forwarding information from an incoming control packet to one or more input/output utility applications in the one or more utility applications, thereby sharding the information from the incoming control packet based on one or more neighboring network routing apparatus;
• and
• creating, via each of the one or more input/output utility applications, one or more new tables for forwarding information from the incoming control packet to one or more route computation utility applications in the one or more utility applications, thereby further sharding the information from the incoming control packet.