Vert.x Example

This example project was put together to evaluate the potential of using Vert.x instead of Spring Boot. Vert.x is a lot more light weight and will boot much faster than a typical Spring application. This will be better in a cloud environment such as AWS where being able to to auto-scale rapidly is important.

URL	purpose
http://localhost:8888/metrics	prometheus metrics endpoint
http://localhost:8888/joke	makes an async call to icanhazdadjoke.com then returns text/plain
http://localhost:8888/jokes	makes an async call to icanhazdadjoke.com then returns json
http://localhost:8888/greeting	returns a random greeting string as text/plain

Run the application

mvn clean compile exec:java

Build an executable jar (fat jar) and run it

mvn clean package
java -jar target/vertx-example-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT-fat.jar

Build and run in a local docker container

docker build -t vertx-example .
docker run -dp 8888:8888 vertx-example

Addition Resources

• https://vertx.io/docs/[Vert.x Documentation]
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vert.x?sort=newest&pageSize=15[Vert.x Stack Overflow]
• https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/vertx[Vert.x User Group]
• https://gitter.im/eclipse-vertx/vertx-users[Vert.x Gitter]