👉 Ekistics is a software development framework developed by Microsoft. It's designed to help developers create efficient, maintainable, and scalable software applications using a common set of standards, tools, and practices. Ekistics provides a high-level language for building large-scale, distributed systems, including microservices, APIs, and web services. The term "ekistics" is often used interchangeably with Microsoft's Azure DevOps, which is Microsoft's open-source platform for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)