| # Design Goals |
| The document outlines the core design goals for SkyWalking Satellite project. |
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| - **Light Weight**. SkyWalking Satellite has a limited cost for resources and high-performance because of the requirements of the sidecar deployment model. |
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| - **Pluggability**. SkyWalking Satellite core team provides many default implementations, but definitely it is not enough, |
| and also don't fit every scenario. So, we provide a lot of features for being pluggable. |
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| - **Portability**. SkyWalking Satellite can run in multiple environments, including: |
| - Use traditional deployment as a daemon process to collect data. |
| - Use cloud services as a sidecar, such as in the Kubernetes platform. |
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| - **Interoperability**. Observability is a big landscape, SkyWalking is impossible to support all, even by its community. So SkyWalking Satellite is compatible with many protocols, including: |
| - SkyWalking protocol |
| - (WIP) Prometheus protocol. |
