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Worth checking out are Java libraries made by Real Logic guys:

https://github.com/real-logic

Aeron - Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport

Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) - High Performance Message Codec

Agrona - High Performance data structures and utility methods for Java

I like this one:

Russian engineer got fed up of having all responsibility and low salary, so he moves to another city and pretends to be an ordinary worker, same salary and peace of mind. However, not long after communist party sends him to evening classes. On his first day there at maths class he was asked about circle circumference formula, but for some reason he could not remember it off hand, so he goes on blackboard and tries to work it out with linear integral. After exhausting whole blackboard he finally gets the result:

-2RPi

Then all of the sudden he hears all of the class whispering to him: "Change the direction of integration!"

I would like to use Convox to spawn several instances of a Java app in order to benchmark Java messaging lib within the VPC (no ELB needed). Is Convox suitable for such use case?