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Documentation

• Slides - Overview presentation
• Implementors Guide - A starting point for learning about Xenon core design and implementation
• FAQ - Frequently asked questions and answers
• Slack Channel (VMware only for now) - xenon
• Tutorials
  • Example Service Tutorial - A simple service walk through
  • Coordinating Async Operations
  • Introduction to Service Queries
  • Query Task Service Tutorial - API and in-depth tutorial on query tasks
  • Graph Query Service - API and tutorial for graph query tasks
  • Authentication and Authorization Tutorial
  • External Authentication Tutorial
  • Task Service Tutorial - Task services manage long-running tasks
  • Hosting Modern UI Tutorial - How to package HTML5/JS UI content and have xenon serve it
  • Time Series and Event Data Tutorial - Best practices for storing metrics or supporting high ingestion rate for events / logs / stats
  • Multiple Node Tutorial - Simple example of on how to start N xenon hosts, have them join each other, and verify service and state replication
  • Restartable Highly Available Task Tutorial - Advanced tutorial on core xenon concepts regarding high availability, consensus, restartable work flows
  • Bootstrap Service Tutorial - Performing a logic only once within a cluster(node group)
  • Testing Tutorial - How to write tests using xenon testing framework
• Developer Guide - How to set up your development environment, build & run tests.
• Testing Guide - How to test your highly available xenon services, all from a local machine
• Contributing - How to work with revision control and submit changes to Xenon.
• Glossary - Commonly used terms and their definitions
• Releases - Releases and support policies
• Workshop - Xenon workshops

Tools

• Xenon Client - A simple command line interface to Xenon services.
• Xenon UI - A built-in application that federates information from nodes across the node groups and visualize them in a single pane of UI.