And like many developers, your next instinct might have been to type into Google.
If you’ve landed on this page, you’re likely deep into the world of reactive programming on the JVM. You’ve heard the buzz about Eclipse Vert.x—the polyglot, event-driven toolkit for building responsive microservices—and you know that the bible for mastering it is Vert.x in Action by Julien Ponge.
Let’s talk about that journey, what the book offers, and how to get your hands on a legitimate copy (hint: it’s easier and safer than you think). Before we talk about the book, let’s address the technology. Traditional Java applications are thread-based . When traffic spikes, you add more threads, which consume memory and CPU context-switching time.
If you are building production reactive systems, the cost of the book is negligible compared to the cost of debugging a BlockedThreadException at 2 AM because you learned from a bootleg PDF missing four chapters.