# Micro ESB

LogBus can check a lot of the same boxes that an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) can, just not at the scale & complexity required for large enterprises. Before reaching for a big solution, consider LogBus to quickly prototype and validate a solution. Here is how LogBus maps onto the components of an ESB from this AWS article:

# Endpoints

LogBus sources & sinks map well to these components.

# Adapters

There are parsers & formatters for JSON & YAML, observability plugins stats & errors, and miscellaneous plugins that can transform events.

# Bus

This is the LogBus Pipeline. A pipeline can contain multiple Flows. Flows can split & merge. There is no monolithic, multi-tenant event bus to operate. Instead, LogBus pipelines would be distributed as needed and evaluated by multiple LogBus processes.