Chapter 5. Listening Out

In a broad, distributed cluster of data storage, it is very useful to be able to know what is happening with our data, either to trigger an application-level response to an event, or to purely gain some visibility with regards to the internal goings-on. In this chapter, we will take a look at the following topics:

  • Creating and using collection listeners
  • Instance, lifecycle, and cluster membership listeners
  • The partition migration listener
  • Quorum functions and listeners

Listening to the goings-on

One great feature of Hazelcast is its ability to notify us of the goings-on of our persisted data and the cluster as a whole, allowing us to register an interest in events. The listener concept is borrowed from Java. So, you should feel ...

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