# Roadmap

See the [中文文档](https://github.com/alibaba/spring-cloud-alibaba/blob/2021.x/Roadmap-zh.md) for Chinese Roadmap.


Spring Cloud Alibaba provides a one-stop solution for distributed application development. It contains all the components required to develop distributed applications, making it easy for you to develop your applications using Spring Cloud.

This project contains components from both open-source and commercialized Alibaba middleware products，but are not limited to them.

If you have any suggestions on our roadmap, feel free to submit issues or contact us via the other channels.


## Components

**Sentinel**

An open-source project of Alibaba, Sentinel takes "flow" as breakthrough point, and provides solutions in areas such as flow control, concurrency, circuit breaking, and load protection to protect service stability.

**Nacos**

An opensource project of Alibaba, an easy-to-use dynamic service discovery, configuration and service management platform for building cloud native applications.

**RocketMQ**

Apache RocketMQ™ is an open source distributed messaging and streaming data platform.

**Dubbo**

Apache Dubbo™ is a high-performance, Java based open source RPC framework.

**Seata**

A distributed transaction solution with high performance and ease of use for microservices architecture.

**Alibaba Cloud OSS**

Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service, An encrypted and secure cloud storage service which stores, processes and accesses massive amounts of data from anywhere in the world.

**Alibaba Cloud Schedulerx**

A distributed task scheduling product developed by Alibaba Middleware team. It supports both periodical tasks and tasks to be triggered at specified time points.

**Alibaba Cloud SMS**

A messaging service that covers the globe, Alibaba SMS provides convenient, efficient, and intelligent communication capabilities that help businesses quickly contact their customers.

