Hydra is a light-weight library for building distributed computing applications - such as microservices.
It was announced at EmpireNode 2016.
A key goal in Hydra is to simplify building Node-based distributed applications.
What is Hydra? (2min read)
There's a Hydra tutorial on the RisingStack community site. Rather watch a video - than read the docs? See our Introduction to Hydra video on YouTube.
Hydra replies on an instance of Redis, if you need to learn more about Redis, see our Redis quick start guide.
If you're just getting started with Node Microservices and you have ExpressJS experience you should first look at our HydraExpress project.
Documentation
Read the Full documentation
Interested in running Hydra on AWS using Docker containers and Swarm mode? See: https://github.com/cjus/hydra-and-aws-in-docker-swarm
Join us on Slack!
Are you using or planning on using Hydra on your project? Join us on Slack for more direct support. https://fwsp-hydra.slack.com
Related projects
Special thanks
A special thanks to Michael Stillwell for generously allowing the Hydra project to use his old repo name on NPM!