Prior art

Blong blends the good parts of well-known paradigms like:

• API-first approach
• Application server
• Composition over inheritance
• Convention over configuration
• Declarative programming
• Dependency injection
• Domain driven design
• Fast feedback loop
• Indirection
• Inversion of control
• Modular programming
• Observability
• Remote procedure call
• Scripting language
• Service oriented architecture
• Test driven development

Blong has similarities with approaches, also found to be described elsewhere:

• Uber: Introducing Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture
• Redhat: Distributed transaction patterns
• Voxer Engineering: Backpressure and Unbounded Concurrency in Node.js
• Microsoft: Data-tier applications (DAC)