StandardAxis

Describes a generic choice between production and test implementations of a component

Any entities which may store and persist state or "repositories". e.g. databases, message queues, KV storages, file systems, etc.

Those may typically have both in-memory Dummy implementations and heavyweight Prod implementations using external databases.

Describes whether external services required by the application should be set-up on the fly by an orchestrator library such as distage-framework-docker (Scene.Managed), or whether the application should try to connect to external services as if they already exist in the environment (Scene.Provided).

We call a set of external services required by the application a Scene, etymology being that the running external services required by the application are like a "scene" that the "staff" (the orchestrator) must prepare for the "actor" (the application) to enter.

Third-party integrations which are not controlled by the application and provided "as is". e.g. Facebook API, Google API, etc.

Those may contact a Real external integration or a Mock one with predefined responses.