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Hands-On Reactive Programming in Spring 5

By : Oleh Dokuka, Igor Lozynskyi
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Hands-On Reactive Programming in Spring 5

By: Oleh Dokuka, Igor Lozynskyi

Overview of this book

These days, businesses need a new type of system that can remain responsive at all times. This is achievable with reactive programming; however, the development of these kinds of systems is a complex task, requiring a deep understanding of the domain. In order to develop highly responsive systems, the developers of the Spring Framework came up with Project Reactor. Hands-On Reactive Programming in Spring 5 begins with the fundamentals of Spring Reactive programming. You’ll explore the endless possibilities of building efficient reactive systems with the Spring 5 Framework along with other tools such as WebFlux and Spring Boot. Further on, you’ll study reactive programming techniques and apply them to databases and cross-server communication. You will advance your skills in scaling up Spring Cloud Streams and run independent, high-performant reactive microservices. By the end of the book, you will be able to put your skills to use and get on board with the reactive revolution in Spring 5.1!
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

RSocket for low-latency, reactive message passing

In the previous section, we learned how we might achieve a reactive system easily using Spring Cloud Streams and its variant in Spring Cloud Data Flow. In turn, we learned how to build a fine-grained system using lightweight functions with the support of Spring Cloud Function and the simplicity of composing them into the flow.

However, one disadvantage of such simplicity and flexibility is losing a low-latency approach. Nowadays, there are some areas of applications where each millisecond plays a vital role. For example, with the stock exchange market, online video games, or systems of real-time manufacture control. With such systems, it is unacceptable to waste time on queuing and dequeuing messages. In turn, as may be noticed, most reliable message brokers persist a message, which increases the time it takes to deliver a message...