Instant Vert.x

In Detail

In traditional concurrent programming, it’s hard to achieve accuracy and even harder to achieve performance. vert.x has a revolutionary approach that takes care of all the thread orchestration, message passing, and shared data in the framework. Deadlocks?Synchronization? Thread pool management? These are now problems of the past.

Instant vert.x Starter is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of clear, step-by-step examples, which will help you to get the best out of the vert.x platform and asynchronous programming in general.

This book gives an overview of the advantages of asynchronous programming, especially the vert.x concurrency model. You will learn how to properly set up your environment with all the necessary tools to get you going with the authentic JVM-polyglot experience with vert.x. After basic examples in JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Groovy, Java, we’ll dig deeper into more real tasks using JavaScript.

With Instant vert.x, you will learn everything you need to know to be an independent web application developer, ready to create real-world web applications in no time.

Approach

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. This Instant book will get you started with vert.x. You will learn everything you need to know to become an independent web application developer.

Who this book is for

This book is great for developers new to asynchronous programming. It’s assumed that you will have some experience in JavaScript and the use of terminal and HTML. Many of the same basic concepts of Node.js can be reused.