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# Microservice Architecture

The diagram above illustrates the Talon microservice architecture.

* Below the dashed line constitute the Talon runtime of a microservice.
* Above the dashed line are user developed artifacts and code

This section contains the following subsections:

* [Runtime Architecture](/talon/concepts-and-architecture/microservice-architecture/runtime-architecture.md) provides a high level description of the components that comprise the Talon microservice runtime.
* [Development Model](/talon/concepts-and-architecture/microservice-architecture/development-model.md) describes the the various artifacts a developers works with and the role that the Application Data Modeler (ADM) plays in the development process.
* [Configuration Model](/talon/concepts-and-architecture/microservice-architecture/configuration-model.md) provides a high level overview of the architecture of the Talon configuration subsystem and the artifacts used by a developer to populate the configuration repository - the repository from where the Talon runtime components source their configuration.