Vert.x – JavaScript + JVM on the back-end

Meetup starts at 6:30pm, with 30 minutes of social time. Beginning at 7pm, Siddique Hameed (https://twitter.com/siddii) will give us a tour of Vert.x (http://vertx.io/), explaining how it can be used to build high performance server-side applications that combine JavaScript and the JVM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine).

Starting about 8:30pm, we'll move into a hacking session to experiment with the material that's been presented, and with JavaScript and Node.js in general.

Simplify Commerce (https://www.simplify.com/commerce/) will be sponsoring complementary sodas and sandwiches, so come hungry, come thirsty, bring your laptop and be ready to code!