Category archive for: Vertx

Building Microservices with Vert.x 3.0

Published by Agraj Mangal on March 31, 2016

Building microservices is considered a fad these days and with Vert.x 3.0 toolkit, building a microservice from ground-up has never been easier. Vert.x presents itself as ideal for creating reactive applications on top of JVM. It’s USP lies in the fact that Vert.x is inherently event-driven, asynchronous and non-blocking in nature and thus the concurrency model it exposes to the…

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Configuring Vertx Clusters

Published by Agraj Mangal on August 14, 2015

Vertx clusters typically use a Cluster Manager based on Hazelcast as it provides auto-node-discovery and group membership for the Vertx nodes in a cluster along with support for distributed data sharing. The vertx-hazelcast jar should be on your CLASSPATH for Vertx to detect it, and use it as the default cluster manager. The cluster could be configured using the default-cluster.xml…

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