Vert.x

Vert.x is an open source Eclipse toolkit that's used to build distributed and reactive systems.

Eclipse Vert.x provides a flexible way to write applications that are lightweight and responsive due to its implementation of Reactive Stream principles.

It is designed to be cloud-native—it allows many processes to run with very few resources (threads, CPU, etc.). In this way, Vert.x applications can better use their CPU quotas in cloud environments. There isn't any unnecessary overhead caused by the creation of a great number of new threads.

It defines an asynchronous and non-blocking development model based on an event loop that handles the requests and avoids long waiting on the client side while the server side is stressed by a high ...

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