Systems and methods for selecting efficient messaging to a service include operating the service in a one of a Microservices Architecture (MSA) and a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA); providing messaging protocols and serialization formats supported by the service for a second service to determine the efficient messaging to the service; and communicating with the second service via a selected messaging protocol and a selected serialization format based on the providing. Each of the service and the second service is a self-contained unit of functionality that is combined with other services to provide functionality of a large software application.