Hydra is a NodeJS package which facilitates building distributed applications such as Microservices.
Hydra offers features such as service discovery, distributed messaging, message load balancing, logging, presence, and health monitoring. It was announced at EmpireNode 2016.
See our 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
We're building a dedicated documentation site for hydra at: https://www.hydramicroservice.com
Our older docs are still available at: 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 To join, email cjus34@gmail.com with your desired username and email address (for invite).
Related projects
There are many projects on NPM which contain the name hydra
. The following are official projects related to the Hydra - microservice library.
- Hydra: hydra core project for use with Non-ExpressJS apps
- Hydra-Express: hydra for ExpressJS developers
- Hydra-cli: a hydra commandline client for interacting with Hydra-enabled applications
- Hydra Generator: A Yeoman generator for quickly building hydra-based projects
- Hydra-Router: A service-aware socket and HTTP API router
- UMF: Universal Message Format, a messaging specification for routable messages
- Hydra-Cluster: A compute cluster based on Hydra
Articles
Special thanks
A special thanks to Michael Stillwell for generously transferring his Hydra
project name on NPM!