Talon is a platform to build, run and manage micro applications (‘micro app’). Talon micro apps are lightweight, stateful message processors that reside on a messaging fabric. They are driven by messaging and communicate with other micro apps using message passing on a guaranteed messaging fabric. Talon apps are powered by the AEP engine which provides atomic and exactly-once message/event processing capabilities and the Talon XVM which serves as the manageable container for hosting Talon micro apps.