Not OP, but Spring Boot and the Netflix stack (esp with rxjava) make it super easy to write fast, simple, non-blocking, easily-deployable, monitorable, and resi

Not OP, but Spring Boot and the Netflix stack (esp with rxjava) make it super easy to write fast, simple, non-blocking, easily-deployable, monitorable, and resilient microservices. Check out http://start.spring.io/ http://start.spring.io/ and click "switch to the full version" to see the huge variety of battle-tested libraries with excellent integration with Spring Boot.