Talon is a platform to build, run and manage micro applications (‘micro app’). Talon micro apps are lightweight, stateful apps that reside of on a messaging fabric. They are driven by messaging and communicate with other micro apps using eventing 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 that manageable container for hosting Talon micro apps.