A method for building a distributed reactive streaming microservices architecture having a decentralized, self-managed, and autonomous data message routing mechanism. The method comprises processing of data message by multiple microservices and generating routing patterns in the form of a fingerprint in response to the message-processing by the microservices. As the message is input into the microservices architecture, a fingerprint of the message is generated, wherein the fingerprint may comprise a payload flag in which payload information is embedded. A first microservice is triggered by recognizing the payload flag. As the message is processed by the first microservice, the fingerprint is updated by appending a first flag to the payload flag. The message with the updated fingerprint is subsequently recognized by a second microservice. As such, the routing of the message is accomplished by the changing fingerprint being recognized by the desired microservices to be triggered.