> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://fluence.gitbook.io/docs/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://fluence.gitbook.io/docs/knowledge_aquamarine/marine.md).

# Marine

[Marine](https://github.com/fluencelabs/marine) is a general purpose WebAssembly runtime favoring Wasm modules based on the [ECS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system) pattern or plugin architecture and uses Wasm [Interface Types](https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types/blob/main/proposals/interface-types/Explainer.md) (IT) to implement a [shared-nothing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared-nothing_architecture) linking scheme. Fluence [nodes](https://github.com/fluencelabs/fluence) use Marine to host the Aqua VM and execute hosted Wasm services.

The [Marine Rust SDK](https://github.com/fluencelabs/marine-rs-sdk) allows to hide the IT implementation details behind a handy procedural macro `[marine]` and provides the scaffolding for unit tests.