I played with most performance frameworks in top 10 in techempower.com, I can conclude that Light-4j should be in top 3-8 ranks by its own power and some tuning tip-tricks. But I and other guys should pay a great thanks to you for full security implementation, modern architecture&design patterns, my best TCO system on production etc. beside performance. Thanks much! -@PeterKieu We are a very early stage startup - with a primary backend built entirely on light-4j, deployed on GKE. Read More »

Light is a platform written in Java SE and designed to build cloud native Web/API with different options. Read More »

General Extremely fast Up to 3 million requests per second on commodity hardware Supports or encourages design first and test driven development Easy to deploy Supports all platforms with JDK 8(branch 1.5.x and 1.6.x) and JDK 11 (branch master and 2.0.x) installed or Docker containers Powerful plugins Allows users to choose built-in plugins or customized plugins See what’s coming next in the roadmap. Read More »

Prefer container and cloud-native Prefer microservice over monolith Prefer light-weight over heavy-weight Prefer high throughtput async IO Prefer smaller memory footprint Prefer shared infrastructure service Prefer new distributed devops tools Prefer continuous delivery through DevOps Prefer auto-provisioning Prefer design first over code first Prefer zero cost abstaction Prefer fail-fast and failure isolation Prefer Middleware in request/response chain Prefer in-process layer over network layer Prefer configuable inversion of control Prefer ByteBuffer over Object Serialization Prefer binary over text over socket Prefer functional over imperative Prefer configuration over annotation Prefer green libraries Prefer code generation Prefer Linux over Windows Prefer distributed over centralized Prefer new technologies Read More »

Improved performance, lowered production costs, security and ease of use are just a few of the reasons Light is so appealing. Read More »

Take a look at what’s in the pipeline for future versions of Light. Read More »

All of Light is open source, including the documentation. If you find problems or you want to improve it, please get involved. If you are having trouble with Light-4j, we would like to help. Try the FAQ documents. They provide solutions to the most common questions. Ask a question on Stack Overflow. We monitor stackoverflow.com for questions tagged with light-4j. For topic based questions or discussions, start a thread on Light-4j Google Group or Sub Reddit For generic questions or confirmations, ask on the Gitter Room Read More »

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Third party video mentioning Light. Adopting APIs & Microservices at a Major Bank (part 1) Adopting APIs & Microservices at a Major Bank (Part 2) Read More »

HTTP sidecar can be utilized as a sidecar along with the backend API in the same pod in a Kubernetes cluster. It allows backend API can be implemented with any language or framework without cross-cutting concerns. Light Gateway depends on the same codebase as the HTTP sidecar but focuses on the standalone deployment for consumer router, provider proxy and shared gateway. Kafka sidecar works with backend application or API to produce and consume messages to and from Kafka and host streams application. Read More »

Light-4j and related frameworks are released under the Apache 2.0 license. Read More »

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When interacting with our customers, we have prepared some presentations. Here are some in PDF format which might help users understand the architecture and design of light-platform. Light-4j Components Read More »