Summary

One of the greatest strengths of Hazelcast is the ease that it provides when you wish to start from scratch. It comes with features such as neighbor self-discovery and automatic clustering, which allow us to create a basic, resilient, and consistent data source in minutes. Though there are plenty of details left to cover and simple examples don't paint a full picture, we hope that you gained a lot of confidence as regards to using the technology. As we move forward, we will explore the increasing specialized functionality and understand the application's inpidual needs that will determine how valuable each topic is to you.

In the next chapter, we shall move on a little further and start using the concurrent capabilities that are offered by Hazelcast.