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 # Go Micro [![License](https://img.shields.io/:license-apache-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0) [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/micro/go-micro?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/micro/go-micro) [![Travis CI](https://api.travis-ci.org/micro/go-micro.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/micro/go-micro) [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/micro/go-micro)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/micro/go-micro)
 
-Go Micro is a pluggable framework for microservice development.
+Go Micro is a pluggable framework for distributed systems development.
 
 The **micro** philosophy is sane defaults with a pluggable architecture. We provide defaults to get you started quickly but everything can be swapped out. 
 Plugins are available at [github.com/micro/go-plugins](https://github.com/micro/go-plugins).