Here, we can see that Hazelcast has again attempted to integrate well into a software library ecosystem, knowing that the same wheel has probably already been invented somewhere else in order to solve various problems or provide a particular functionality. Being able to work well with other popular existing frameworks makes bringing this powerful new technology into our existing stack a much smoother process.

As we have seen throughout this book, this great technology provides us with a flexible, extensible, and dynamic data source, enabling us to build data stores and structures that are truly distributed without any single point of failure. We can use various generic collections to hold our data in appropriate ways, be it for key value storage, FIFO queuing, or providing a mechanism for cluster-wide communication. It also provides us with additional complimentary capabilities that will normally be crowbarred into other centralized services (for example, using database row locking...