Rick Hightower, founder of Boon, QBit and Mammatus Technology, interviewed Tim Fox on behalf of InfoQ. Vert.x is a reactive, microservices toolkit for the JVM, that provides an asynchronous, scalable, concurrent services development model. It supports polyglot language development with first class support for JavaScript, Ruby, Groovy, Scala, and of course Java. InfoQ got a chance to catch up with Tim Fox, the creators of Vert.x and the Vert.x lead architect to get his thoughts on Vert.x in general and the upcoming Vert.x 3 release. Tim explains how Vert.x compares to Java EE, Spring, Akka, and explains how Vert.x is a good fit for microservices, reactive development. InfoQ: What is Vert.x and why would someone pick it instead of a traditional Java stacks like Servlets or Java EE or Spring?
Read the full article at the InfoQ website (InfoQ Article: Interview with Tim Fox About Vert.x 3, the Original Reactive, Microservice Toolkit for the JVM). Here is some content that did not quite make the editorial cut. I can see why, but it was fun so I include it here:
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