Vert.x in Action

Vert.x in Action teaches you how to build production-quality reactive applications in Java. This book covers core Vert.x concepts, as well as the fundamentals of asynchronous and reactive programming. Learn to develop microservices by using Vert.x tools for database communications, persistent messaging, and test app resiliency. The patterns and techniques included here transfer to reactive technologies and frameworks beyond Vert.x.

Summary

As enterprise applications become larger and more distributed, new architectural approaches like reactive designs, microservices, and event streams are required knowledge. The Vert.x framework provides a mature, rock-solid toolkit for building reactive applications using Java, Kotlin, or Scala. Vert.x in Action teaches you to build responsive, resilient, and scalable JVM applications with Vert.x using well-established reactive design patterns.

About the technology

Vert.x is a collection of libraries for the Java virtual machine that simplify event-based and asynchronous programming. Vert.x applications handle tedious tasks like asynchronous communication, concurrent work, message and data persistence, plus they’re easy to scale, modify, and maintain. Backed by the Eclipse Foundation and used by Red Hat and others, this toolkit supports code in a variety of languages.

About the book

Vert.x in Action teaches you how to build production-quality reactive applications in Java. This book covers core Vert.x concepts, as well as the fundamentals of asynchronous and reactive programming. Learn to develop microservices by using Vert.x tools for database communications, persistent messaging, and test app resiliency. The patterns and techniques included here transfer to reactive technologies and frameworks beyond Vert.x.

What’s inside

•    Building reactive services
•    Responding to external service failures
•    Horizontal scaling
•    Vert.x toolkit architecture and Vert.x testing
•    Deploying with Docker and Kubernetes

About the reader

For intermediate Java web developers.

About the author

Julien Ponge is a principal software engineer at Red Hat, working on the Eclipse Vert.x project.

Table of Contents

PART 1 – FUNDAMENTALS OF ASYNCHRONOUS PROGRAMMING WITH VERT.X

PART 2 – DEVELOPING REACTIVE SERVICES WITHT VERT.X

1. Vert.x, asynchronous programming, and reactive systems
2. Verticles: The basic processing units of Vert.x
3. Event bus: The backbone of a Vert.x application
4. Asynchronous data and event streams
5. Beyond callbacks
6. Beyond the event bus
7. Designing a reactive application
8. The web stack
9. Messaging and event streaming with Vert.x
10. Persistent state management with databases
11. End-to-end real-time reactive event processing
12. Toward responsiveness with load and chaos testing
13. Final notes: Container-native Vert.x

Review

“If you want to understand Vert.x, how it works, and how best to tame it, this is the book for you.”

–Sanket Naik, Aruba Networks

“Provides a comprehensive overview of what the frame-work is capable of, and a solid introduction to reactive programming in general. Highly recommended!”

–Damian Esteban, BetterPT

“This is your complete toolbox for resilient Java applications!”

–Michał Ambroziewicz, KYP.ai

“All the information you need to build solid concurrent applications that can run at a massive scale.”

–Jerry Stralko, Wolters Kluwer

About the Author

Dr Julien Ponge is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on reactive and the Eclipse Vert.x project. He is on leave from INSA Lyon and the CITI Laboratory where he was an Associate Professor in computer science and engineering. He held various teaching, research, management, and executive positions there. He has 20 years of experience in open source ecosystems, having participated in many projects and created the likes of IzPack and the Eclipse Golo programming language. He is also a regular speaker at user groups and conferences. He is an alumni from Univer- sité Clermont Auvergne (France) and the University of New South Wales (Australia) where he obtained his PhD degrees.