Hydra is a NodeJS package, which facilitates building distributed applications such as Microservices. Hydra does this by leveraging the awesome power of Redis.

Hydra project was open sourced at the EmpireNode 2016 conference in New York City.

The project was named after Hydra, a mythical multi-headed beast from Greek and Roman mythology. Each head capable of acting independently while achieving an objective.

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