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Alternatives to Vert.x

Spring, Akka, RxJava, Netty, and Ktor are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Vert.x.
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What is Vert.x and what are its top alternatives?

It is event driven and non blocking application framework. This means your app can handle a lot of concurrency using a small number of kernel threads. It lets your app scale with minimal hardware.
Vert.x is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Vert.x

  • Spring
    Spring

    A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments. ...

  • Akka
    Akka

    Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM. ...

  • RxJava
    RxJava

    A library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs by using observable sequences for the Java VM. ...

  • Netty
    Netty

    Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server. ...

  • Ktor
    Ktor

    It is a framework for building asynchronous servers and clients in connected systems using the Kotlin programming language. ...

  • Micronaut Framework
    Micronaut Framework

    It is a modern, JVM-based, full-stack framework for building modular, easily testable microservice and serverless applications. It features a Dependency Injection and Aspect-Oriented Programming runtime that uses no reflection. ...

  • Quarkus
    Quarkus

    It tailors your application for GraalVM and HotSpot. Amazingly fast boot time, incredibly low RSS memory (not just heap size!) offering near instant scale up and high density memory utilization in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. We use a technique we call compile time boot. ...

  • Apache Tomcat
    Apache Tomcat

    Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations. ...

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