Take a look at http://vertx.io/ http://vertx.io/ . It's basically the Java community's answer to modern, fast, straight forward technologies like NodeJS. Just b

Take a look at http://vertx.io/ http://vertx.io/ . It's basically the Java community's answer to modern, fast, straight forward technologies like NodeJS. Just by the performance improvements alone I've been hearing people tout you can often justify it in big business jobs.