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Reactive Programming for .NET Developers

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Reactive Programming for .NET Developers

Overview of this book

Reactive programming is an innovative programming paradigm focused on time-based problem solving. It makes your programs better-performing, easier to scale, and more reliable. Want to create fast-running applications to handle complex logics and huge datasets for financial and big-data challenges? Then you have picked up the right book! Starting with the principles of reactive programming and unveiling the power of the pull-programming world, this book is your one-stop solution to get a deep practical understanding of reactive programming techniques. You will gradually learn all about reactive extensions, programming, testing, and debugging observable sequence, and integrating events from CLR data-at-rest or events. Finally, you will dive into advanced techniques such as manipulating time in data-flow, customizing operators and providers, and exploring functional reactive programming. By the end of the book, you'll know how to apply reactive programming to solve complex problems and build efficient programs with reactive user interfaces.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Reactive Programming for .NET Developers
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About the Authors
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Preface

Implementing event sourcing with Rx


Event Sourcing (ES) is a software design that requires the persistence of events instead of results. In the Programming experience section of Chapter 1 , First Steps Toward Reactive Programming, we had the opportunity to understand how to persist data in a reactive way. Even though this is not mandatory using ES when programming reactive, this is the most natural way of dealing with data persistence from an observable sequence.

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Talking exhaustively about ES is outside the scope of this book. We will assume the reader already has some knowledge about ES. Otherwise, here are some details: ES: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj591559.aspx CQRS with Event Sourcing: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj591577.aspx Further reading: Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise, 2nd Edition, Microsoft.

By implementing the ES design instead of persisting results at specific dates, we persist data exactly as we receive it from an...