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 ## Goals
 
 - Enable developers using *any* language or framework to write distributed applications
-- Solve the hard problems developers face building microservice applications by providing best practice building blocks
+- Solve the hard problems developers face building microservice applications by providing best practice building blocks.
 - Be community driven, open and vendor neutral
 - Gain new contributors
 - Provide consistency and portability through open APIs