# Data Services Platform

**Introduction:**

The Data Services Platform builds on the Data Management Platform by adding the ability to implement and execute the Real-Time and Event Driven architectural styles of data processing. Specifically, it allows you to create web services / API's (SOAP and REST) as either a Talend 'Data Service' or Route and asynchronous patterns using Routes. These can then be deployed and run on the Talend Runtime.

You can also deploy these artifacts as a standalone microservice. For more information, see the [Talend Studio User Guide](https://help.qlik.com/talend/r/en-US/8.0/studio-user-guide/esb-build-job-microservice).

**Development:**

![](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/talend-physical-reference-architecture/Resources/images/DS-DEV.png)

Points of note:

* A third party message broker or ActiveMQ is included in the diagram as many Enterprise Integration Patterns: https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/ rely heavily on such infrastructure.

**Test:**

![](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/talend-physical-reference-architecture/Resources/images/DS-TEST.png)

**Pre-Production / Production:**

![](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/talend-physical-reference-architecture/Resources/images/DS-PROD.png)

Points of note:

* A third part load balancer or API gateway is required for high availability of API's. It is not required for asynchronous routes.