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Getting Groovy with Vert.x

Ryan Applegate
July 31, 2015
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Getting Groovy with Vert.x

Using Vert.x with Groovy for writing polyglot reactive applications on the JVM.

Ryan Applegate

July 31, 2015
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  1. Who am I •  Ryan Applegate •  Senior Software Engineer

    @ SmartThings •  @rappleg on Twitter and GitHub
  2. Vert.x Agenda Background (Inspired by Node.js) Why Vert.x? Benchmarks (How

    does Vert.x stack up?) Terminology and examples Demo 1 – Websockets How does SmartThings use Vert.x? Demo 2 – SmartThings Web IDE What’s new in Vert.x 3
  3. What is Node? Server Side Javascript Event Driven Non-Blocking I/O

    Single thread/single event loop Application registers handlers Events trigger handlers Everything runs on the event loop
  4. Reactor Pattern Issues •  MUST not block the event loop

    •  Some work is naturally blocking •  Intensive data crunching •  3rd-party blocking API's (e.g. JDBC, etc...) •  Node.js is not good for this type of work
  5. Why Vert.x? Same event-driven non-blocking IO programming model as Node

    Polyglot (Groovy, Ruby, Java, Javascript, Python, Scala, and Clojure) Mature concurrency framework (JVM) Hazelcast for Clustering Interprocess Communication via Event Bus Built on Netty and NIO2 for Network I/O
  6. Ideal choice for creating microservices. Lightweight - Vert.x core is

    around 650kB in size. Fast - We’ll take a look at some independent benchmarks It’s not an application server - There's no monolithic Vert.x instance into which you deploy applications. You just run your apps wherever you want to. Modular - when you need more bits just add the bits you need and nothing more.
  7. Verticle The unit of deployment in vert.x is called a

    verticle (think of a particle, for vert.x). Verticles can currently be written in Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Groovy, Clojure, and Scala. A verticle is defined by having a main which is just the script (or class in the case of Java) to run to start the verticle. Verticle
  8. Running Vert.x Server Server.groovy vertx.createHttpServer().requestHandler { req -> def file

    = req.uri == "/" ? "index.html" : req.uri req.response.sendFile "webroot/$file" }.listen(8080) Start the server vertx run Server.groovy Utilize more cores, up your instances... vertx run Server.groovy -instances 32
  9. Concurrency Verticle instance ALWAYS executes on assigned thread/event loop. Verticles

    can have isolated classloaders and therefore not share global state. Write all your code as single threaded. No more synchronized and volatile!
  10. Pub/Sub messages.inbound.foo Handler 1 Handler 2 Handler 3 Sender Deliver

    single message to all handlers registered at an address
  11. P2P messages.inbound.foo Handler 1 Handler 2 Handler 3 Sender Deliver

    message to only one handler registered at an address
  12. Sender eb.send("test.address”, ”Some msg") { message -> println "I received

    a reply ${message.body}" } Receiver eb.registerHandler("test.address") { message -> println "I received a message ${message.body}” // Do some work here message.reply("test.address”) }
  13. Vert.x in the Browser Clustered along with Vert.x instances using

    HazelCast (In-memory data grid) SockJS - Older browsers/Corp Proxy Talk to event bus through SockJS Bridge WebSockets - HTML 5 feature that allows a full duplex between HTTP servers
  14. WebSockets on the Server def server = vertx.createHttpServer() server.websocketHandler{ ws

    -> println "A websocket has connected!” }.listen(8080, "localhost")
  15. Demo – WebSockets in the Browser BroChat – Connect and

    join the gr8conf room to send messages back and forth Simple chat server example to start up HTTP Server on 8080 and allow messages to be sent back and forth using the event bus and websockets
  16. Vert.x Shared State Shared Data Object (vertx.sharedData()) ConcurrentMap or Set

    Elements MUST be immutable values Currently only available within a Vertx instance, not across the cluster
  17. Allowed Values •  Strings •  Boxed Primitives •  byte[] • 

    org.vertx.java.core.buffer.Buffer •  org.vertx.java.core.shareddata.Shareable
  18. Verticle 1 def map = vertx.sharedData.getMap('demo.mymap') map["some-key"] = 123 Verticle

    2 def map = vertx.sharedData.getMap('demo.mymap') // Retrieve value 123 from the map def value = map."some-key" Shared Map
  19. Verticle 1 def set = vertx.sharedData.getSet('demo.myset') set << "some-value" Verticle

    2 def set = vertx.sharedData.getSet('demo.myset') // Set will now contain some-value set.contains("some-value") Shared Set
  20. Worker Verticle Example public class FibWorker extends Verticle { @Override

    public void start() { def eb = vertx.eventBus() eb.registerHandler("fib.request") { message -> def result = fib(message.body.intValue()) def resultMessage = { nbr: message.body, result: result } eb.send("fib.response", resultMessage) } } def fib(n) { n < 2 ? 1 : fib(n-1) + fib(n-2) } }
  21. Verticle (Running on Event Loop) public class WorkerExample extends Verticle

    { @Override public void start() { def eb = vertx.eventBus() eb.registerHandler("fib.response") { msg -> println "Fib:${msg.body.nbr}=${msg.body.result}" } container.deployWorkerVerticle("worker.FibWorker") { msg -> eb.send("fib.request", 20) } } }
  22. More stuff with Vert.x Core APIs •  TCP/SSL servers and

    clients •  HTTP/HTTPS servers and clients •  WebSockets servers and clients •  Accessing the distributed event bus •  Periodic and one-off timers •  Buffers •  Flow control •  Accessing files on the file system •  Shared map and sets •  Logging •  Accessing configuration •  Writing SockJS servers •  Deploying and undeploying verticles
  23. How does SmartThings use Vert.x? Hubs/Clients need to maintain always

    open socket amqp bus mode to push/pull events to/from Rabbit MQ Event Bus to get messages to the right socket
  24. SmartThings Vert.x Throughput > 1k events/second ~ 100 million events/day

    from hubs to Vert.x in our production environment In our load testing environment we’ve easily achieved 5x our production numbers and still plenty of room to go. That’s almost ½ billion events/day! Running 8 Vert.x instances in prod Primary reason is stability, not throughput Mirrored on ios, android, and windows clients
  25. Demo – WebSockets in the IDE •  Log into SmartThings

    IDE and show simulator •  Show how ide, device, and client conns work together to send device messages back and forth using the event bus and websockets to update the simulator
  26. What’s new in Vert.x 3 Truly embeddable, pluggable library (no

    longer framework) Simple flat model (no extra classloaders) Build in RxJava support (Rx-ified versions of all Vert.x APIs) Vert.x-Web - this is a toolkit for writing modern web applications with Vert.x Experimenting with synchronous style code without the need for callback hell of programming against asynchronous APIs
  27. Vert.x 3 - Continued Vertx 3 is even more targeted

    at the reactive microservice space Support for pluggable messaging Support for more than one cluster manager Async support for MySQL, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc… Out of the box metrics support with DropWizard metrics
  28. Vert.x 3 - Core Vert.x core contains fairly low level

    functionality including support for HTTP, TCP, file system access, and various other features. You can use this directly in your own applications, and it's used by many of the other components of Vert.x https://github.com/vert-x3/vertx-examples/tree/master/ core-examples
  29. Vert.x 3 – Core Examples Embed Vert.x core in any

    Java class and run it that way Vert.x Net servers and clients (TCP/SSL) HTTP/HTTPS servers Websockets Pub/Sub
  30. Vert.x 3 - Web Vert.x-Web is a toolkit for writing

    sophisticated modern web applications and HTTP microservices. https://github.com/vert-x3/vertx-examples/tree/master/ web-examples
  31. Vert.x 3 – Web Examples HTTP/REST microservices Static sites with

    templating Sessions Auth Cookies HTML Forms
  32. Upgrading from Vert.x 2 – Dependency Changes Remove vert.x-platform from

    pom Change all imports for Vertx from org.vertx to io.vertx If using a language other than Java, change the dependency to vertx-lang-<<language>> Remove any modules references that are using Vert.x 2.x Use Vertx-unit and remove old teststools dependency
  33. Upgrading from Vert.x 2 – Build Changes Remove all vertx

    maven plugin code to generate modules and create fat jars instead If you were running your application with runMod or something like that then you need to create a fat jar, changing the build file as in
  34. Upgrading from Vert.x 2 – Code Changes Verticle is now

    an interface and not a class to extend, so using Groovy as an example you now extend GroovyVerticle. In Java extendAbstractVerticle instead. JsonObject.toMap() changed to JsonObject.getMap() There isn’t a container variable in Verticles anymore for deploying verticles and also a config file. You need to usevertx.getOrCreateContext().config() to get to it