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+# Building decoupled polyglot applications with Vert.x
+
+By [@tcrawley](http://twitter.com/tcrawley)
+
+Vert.x is an asynchronous application platform built on top of Netty
+that supports several JVM languages: Clojure, Groovy, Java,
+JavaScript, JRuby, Jython, PHP, and Scala. It uses a multi-reactor
+model to efficiently serve a high number of concurrent connections,
+and greatly simplifies distributed component coordination by providing
+built-in message passing between components, up to and including the
+browser!
+
+In this talk, I'll provide an introduction to Vert.x, and cover the
+trade-offs of using it for developing polyglot applications.
+
+See the
+[slides](http://tcrawley.org/presentations/codemash-vertx-2014/vertx.html)
+and [sample code](https://github.com/tobias/vertx-codemash-2014/tree/master/fireside-chat).