- designed from the ground up to be cloud native
- designed from the ground up to be a Reactive System as outlined by the Reactive Manifesto
- Responsive
- Resilient
- Elastic
- Message Driven
- DevOps friendly
- easy to configure
- easy to deploy
- easy to operate and support
- built in health checks and metrics for monitoring and alerting
- centralized logging
- built in tooling
- developer friendly
- high productivity