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Hands-On Reactive Programming with Python

By : Romain Picard
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Hands-On Reactive Programming with Python

By: Romain Picard

Overview of this book

Reactive programming is central to many concurrent systems, but it’s famous for its steep learning curve, which makes most developers feel like they're hitting a wall. With this book, you will get to grips with reactive programming by steadily exploring various concepts This hands-on guide gets you started with Reactive Programming (RP) in Python. You will learn abouta the principles and benefits of using RP, which can be leveraged to build powerful concurrent applications. As you progress through the chapters, you will be introduced to the paradigm of Functional and Reactive Programming (FaRP), observables and observers, and concurrency and parallelism. The book will then take you through the implementation of an audio transcoding server and introduce you to a library that helps in the writing of FaRP code. You will understand how to use third-party services and dynamically reconfigure an application. By the end of the book, you will also have learned how to deploy and scale your applications with Docker and Traefik and explore the significant potential behind the reactive streams concept, and you'll have got to grips with a comprehensive set of best practices.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Exploring Observables and Observers

In this chapter, we will go into detail on observables: how to create them, how to subscribe to them, how to handle their errors, and how to use them with AsyncIO. In the first part of this chapter, we will describe all of the possible ways to create observables, from existing objects, iterable objects, or custom code logic. Each time a new observable is needed, one of these methods is best for the situation.

In the second part of this chapter, we will explain another important notion of ReactiveX: hot and cold observables. Knowing whether an observable is hot or cold is the key to using it correctly. The third part of this chapter will cover the different ways to listen to an observable and how to deal with errors. Finally, the last part will illustrate how observables can cohabit with AsyncIO and how to bridge futures and observables. This...