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Alternatives to Netty

Jetty, Mina, Apache Tomcat, Undertow, and Akka are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Netty.
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What is Netty and what are its top alternatives?

Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server.
Netty is a tool in the Concurrency Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Netty is an open source tool with 30.9K GitHub stars and 15.2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Netty's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to Netty

  • Jetty
    Jetty

    Jetty is used in a wide variety of projects and products, both in development and production. Jetty can be easily embedded in devices, tools, frameworks, application servers, and clusters. See the Jetty Powered page for more uses of Jetty. ...

  • Mina
    Mina

    Mina works really fast because it's a deploy Bash script generator. It generates an entire procedure as a Bash script and runs it remotely in the server. Compare this to the likes of Vlad or Capistrano, where each command is run separately on their own SSH sessions. Mina only creates one SSH session per deploy, minimizing the SSH connection overhead. ...

  • Apache Tomcat
    Apache Tomcat

    Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations. ...

  • Undertow
    Undertow

    It is a flexible performant web server written in java, providing both blocking and non-blocking API’s based on NIO. It has a composition based architecture that allows you to build a web server by combining small single purpose handlers. The gives you the flexibility to choose between a full Java EE servlet 4.0 container, or a low level non-blocking handler, to anything in between. ...

  • Akka
    Akka

    Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM. ...

  • NGINX
    NGINX

    nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018. ...

  • Spring Boot
    Spring Boot

    Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration. ...

  • Node.js
    Node.js

    Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices. ...

Netty alternatives & related posts

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Jetty

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An open-source project providing an HTTP server, HTTP client, and javax.servlet container
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PROS OF JETTY
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    Lightweight
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    Very fast
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    Embeddable
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    Scalable
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    Very thin
CONS OF JETTY
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    Student

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Mina

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Really fast deployer and server automation tool
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PROS OF MINA
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    Easy, fast and light weight
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    Reusable task
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    Ruby
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    Be the first to leave a con

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    Apache Tomcat

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      Spring web
    CONS OF APACHE TOMCAT
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      Blocking - each http request block a thread

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    Остап Комплікевич

    I need some advice to choose an engine for generation web pages from the Spring Boot app. Which technology is the best solution today? 1) JSP + JSTL 2) Apache FreeMarker 3) Thymeleaf Or you can suggest even other perspective tools. I am using Spring Boot, Spring Web, Spring Data, Spring Security, PostgreSQL, Apache Tomcat in my project. I have already tried to generate pages using jsp, jstl, and it went well. However, I had huge problems via carrying already created static pages, to jsp format, because of syntax. Thanks.

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    Java Spring JUnit

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    Undertow logo

    Undertow

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    A flexible performant web server written in java
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    PROS OF UNDERTOW
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      Performance
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      Lower footprint
    CONS OF UNDERTOW
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      Smaller community
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    Akka

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      Open source
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      Resilient
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      Message driven
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      Scalable
    CONS OF AKKA
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      Mixing futures with Akka tell is difficult
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      Closing of futures
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      No type safety
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      Very difficult to refactor
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      Typed actors still not stable

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    To solve the problem of scheduling and executing arbitrary tasks in its distributed infrastructure, PagerDuty created an open-source tool called Scheduler. Scheduler is written in Scala and uses Cassandra for task persistence. It also adds Apache Kafka to handle task queuing and partitioning, with Akka to structure the library’s concurrency.

    The service’s logic schedules a task by passing it to the Scheduler’s Scala API, which serializes the task metadata and enqueues it into Kafka. Scheduler then consumes the tasks, and posts them to Cassandra to prevent data loss.

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    I decided to use Akka instead of Kafka streams because I have personal relationships at @Lightbend.

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    NGINX logo

    NGINX

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      Easy to configure
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      Load balancer
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      Free
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      Scalability
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      Web server
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      Simplicity
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      Easy setup
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      Content caching
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      Capability
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      Fast
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      Predictability
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      The best of them
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      Supports http/2
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      Enterprise version
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      Great Community
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      Lots of Modules
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      High perfomance proxy server
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      Streaming media delivery
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      Reversy Proxy
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      Streaming media
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      Embedded Lua scripting
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      GRPC-Web
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      Blash
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      Lightweight
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      Fast and easy to set up
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      Virtual hosting
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      Narrow focus. Easy to configure. Fast
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    CONS OF NGINX
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    We also implemented a dashboard app to handle user authentication/authorization, as well as a custom SSO server that runs on Heroku which allows experts to easily visit more than one instance without having to login repeatedly. The #Backend was implemented using my favorite #Stack which consists of FeathersJS on top of Node.js and ExpressJS with PostgreSQL as the main database. The #Frontend was implemented using React, Redux.js, Semantic UI React and the FeathersJS client. Though testing was light on this project, we chose to use AVA as well as ESLint to keep the codebase clean and consistent.

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    Gabriel Pa
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    We switched to Traefik so we can use the REST API to dynamically configure subdomains and have the ability to redirect between multiple servers.

    We still use nginx with a docker-compose to expose the traffic from our APIs and TCP microservices, but for managing routing to the internet Traefik does a much better job

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    Spring Boot

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      Powerful and handy
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      Easy setup
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      Java
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      Fast
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      Extensible
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      Lots of "off the shelf" functionalities
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      Cloud Solid
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      Caches well
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      Many receipes around for obscure features
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      Productive
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      Integrations with most other Java frameworks
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      Modular
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      Spring ecosystem is great
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      Fast Performance With Microservices
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      Auto-configuration
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      Community
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      Easy setup, Community Support, Solid for ERP apps
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      One-stop shop
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      Cross-platform
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      Easy to parallelize
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      Powerful 3rd party libraries and frameworks
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      Easy setup, good for build erp systems, well documented
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      Easy setup, Git Integration
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      Excellent tools for cloud hosting, since 5.x

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    We are in the process of building a modern content platform to deliver our content through various channels. We decided to go with Microservices architecture as we wanted scale. Microservice architecture style is an approach to developing an application as a suite of small independently deployable services built around specific business capabilities. You can gain modularity, extensive parallelism and cost-effective scaling by deploying services across many distributed servers. Microservices modularity facilitates independent updates/deployments, and helps to avoid single point of failure, which can help prevent large-scale outages. We also decided to use Event Driven Architecture pattern which is a popular distributed asynchronous architecture pattern used to produce highly scalable applications. The event-driven architecture is made up of highly decoupled, single-purpose event processing components that asynchronously receive and process events.

    To build our #Backend capabilities we decided to use the following: 1. #Microservices - Java with Spring Boot , Node.js with ExpressJS and Python with Flask 2. #Eventsourcingframework - Amazon Kinesis , Amazon Kinesis Firehose , Amazon SNS , Amazon SQS, AWS Lambda 3. #Data - Amazon RDS , Amazon DynamoDB , Amazon S3 , MongoDB Atlas

    To build #Webapps we decided to use Angular 2 with RxJS

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    Node.js

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      Asynchronous
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      Great community
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      Great for realtime apps
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      Great for command line utilities
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      Websockets
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      Node Modules
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      Uber Simple
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      Great modularity
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      Allows us to reuse code in the frontend
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      Easy to start
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      Great for Data Streaming
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      Realtime
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      Awesome
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      Non blocking IO
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      Can be used as a proxy
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      High performance, open source, scalable
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      Non-blocking and modular
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      Easy and Fun
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      Easy and powerful
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      Same lang as AngularJS
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      Future of BackEnd
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      Fullstack
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      Fast
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      Cross platform
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      Scalability
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      Simple
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      Easy concurrency
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      Typescript
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      Fast, simple code and async
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      Great speed
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      Scalable
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      Its amazingly fast and scalable
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      Control everything
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      Fast development
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      Easy to use
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      Great community
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      Scales, fast, simple, great community, npm, express
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      TypeScript Support
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      Sooper easy for the Backend connectivity
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      Not Python
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      One language, end-to-end
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      Easy
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      Easy to learn
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      Performant and fast prototyping
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      Blazing fast
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      Javascript
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      Breaking updates
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    Nick Rockwell
    SVP, Engineering at Fastly · | 44 upvotes · 2.3M views

    When I joined NYT there was already broad dissatisfaction with the LAMP (Linux Apache HTTP Server MySQL PHP) Stack and the front end framework, in particular. So, I wasn't passing judgment on it. I mean, LAMP's fine, you can do good work in LAMP. It's a little dated at this point, but it's not ... I didn't want to rip it out for its own sake, but everyone else was like, "We don't like this, it's really inflexible." And I remember from being outside the company when that was called MIT FIVE when it had launched. And been observing it from the outside, and I was like, you guys took so long to do that and you did it so carefully, and yet you're not happy with your decisions. Why is that? That was more the impetus. If we're going to do this again, how are we going to do it in a way that we're gonna get a better result?

    So we're moving quickly away from LAMP, I would say. So, right now, the new front end is React based and using Apollo. And we've been in a long, protracted, gradual rollout of the core experiences.

    React is now talking to GraphQL as a primary API. There's a Node.js back end, to the front end, which is mainly for server-side rendering, as well.

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    Conor Myhrvold
    Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 42 upvotes · 6M views

    How Uber developed the open source, end-to-end distributed tracing Jaeger , now a CNCF project:

    Distributed tracing is quickly becoming a must-have component in the tools that organizations use to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. At Uber, our open source distributed tracing system Jaeger saw large-scale internal adoption throughout 2016, integrated into hundreds of microservices and now recording thousands of traces every second.

    Here is the story of how we got here, from investigating off-the-shelf solutions like Zipkin, to why we switched from pull to push architecture, and how distributed tracing will continue to evolve:

    https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/

    (GitHub Pages : https://www.jaegertracing.io/, GitHub: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger)

    Bindings/Operator: Python Java Node.js Go C++ Kubernetes JavaScript OpenShift C# Apache Spark

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