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 Go Micro abstracts away the details of distributed systems. Here are the main features.
 
+- **Authentication** - Auth is built in as a first class citizen. Authentication and authorization enable secure 
+zero trust networking by providing every service an identity and certificates. This additionally includes rule 
+based access control.
+
+- **Dynamic Config** - Load and hot reload dynamic config from anywhere. The config interface provides a way to load application 
+level config from any source such as env vars, file, etcd. You can merge the sources and even define fallbacks.
+
+- **Data Storage** - A simple data store interface to read, write and delete records. It includes support for memory, file and 
+CockroachDB by default. State and persistence becomes a core requirement beyond prototyping and Micro looks to build that into the framework.
+
 - **Service Discovery** - Automatic service registration and name resolution. Service discovery is at the core of micro service 
 development. When service A needs to speak to service B it needs the location of that service. The default discovery mechanism is 
 multicast DNS (mdns), a zeroconf system.
@@ -35,16 +45,6 @@ transport is [gRPC](https://grpc.io/).
 - **Async Messaging** - PubSub is built in as a first class citizen for asynchronous communication and event driven architectures. 
 Event notifications are a core pattern in micro service development. The default messaging system is a HTTP event message broker.
 
-- **Authentication** - Auth is built in as a first class citizen. Authentication and authorization enable secure 
-zero trust networking by providing every service an identity and certificates. This additionally includes rule 
-based access control.
-
-- **Dynamic Config** - Load and hot reload dynamic config from anywhere. The config interface provides a way to load application 
-level config from any source such as env vars, file, etcd. You can merge the sources and even define fallbacks.
-
-- **Data Storage** - A simple data store interface to read, write and delete records. It includes support for memory, file and 
-CockroachDB by default. State and persistence becomes a core requirement beyond prototyping and Micro looks to build that into the framework.
-
 - **Synchronization** - Distributed systems are often built in an eventually consistent manner. Support for distributed locking and 
 leadership are built in as a Sync interface. When using an eventually consistent database or scheduling use the Sync interface.