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• Install maven
• Install Java 8

Docker

• Install docker
• From a command line run docker-compose up

Vagrant (deprecated)

A vagrant environment is included, this environment provides the postgresql server for local development. It also allows testing of Ansible deployment and provisioning scripts locally.

• Install vagrant
• Install virtualbox
• From a command line run vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
• From a command line run vagrant up

VM options

Tweak the number of threads assigned to the common pool by setting the Java app to run with the flag -Djava.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.common.parallelism=<NO_OF_THREADS>, where NO_OF_THREADS can be reasonably set anywhere between 1-100 (depending on target machine).