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+# Service Components
+
+Component code is where the magic and tears of TGS are made. There are six main TGS components that map to namespaces in this directory.
+
+- [The git repository](./Repository)
+- [The BYOND manager](./Byond)
+- [The Compiler](./Deployment)
+- [The Watchdog](./Watchdog)
+- [The configuration system](./StaticFiles)
+
+There exist two more namespaces in here that don't fit in these 6.
+
+- [Interop](./Interop) deals with the bulk of DMAPI communication (Though it's not all contained here).
+- [Session](./Session) contains the classes used for actually executing DreamDaemon among other things.
+
+Each of these is tied under the roof of an [IInstance](./IInstance.cs) ([implementation](./Instance.cs)).
+
+While the database represents stored instance data, in component code an instance is online, or doesn't exist.
+
+`IInstance`s are created via the [IInstanceFactory](./IInstanceFactory.cs) ([implementation](./InstanceFactory.cs)) and are generally controlled via the [IInstanceManager](./IInstanceManager.cs) ([implementation](./InstanceManager.cs)).