---
type: ApplicationType
title: distributed (application type)
description: Multiple coordinating deployable services forming one system. Existing infra vocabulary value (byte-preserved).
tags: [application-type, catalog, rfc-114, distributed]
timestamp: 2026-07-03T00:00:00Z
---

# distributed (application type)

The **distributed** type: multiple coordinating deployable services forming one
system — a compose / k8s multi-service topology. Existing value in the infra
vocabulary, byte-preserved on the wire.

## Entry (structured — the judgment-carrying-catalog schema)

```yaml
kind: application-type
id: distributed
question: application-type
features:
  - id: multi-service-topology
    signal: "multiple coordinating deployable services (compose/k8s multi-service topology; service discovery between them)"
    observed_via: process-shape
lineage:
  tradition: "distributed systems / microservice topologies"
  exemplars: ["compose multi-service stacks", "k8s microservice deployments"]
  reference: "deployment_record.PROJECT_TYPES (RFC #97; wire value byte-preserved)"
examples:
  - "infra_bootstrap's distributed classification for multi-service manifests (RFC #97)"
```
