Spring Cloud Data Flow brings Cloud-Native features to data flow and event flow streams. It makes it easy to create and deploy streams on the Cloud. In this chapter, we covered how individual applications in event-driven flows can be set up using Spring Cloud Stream. We took a 1000 feet view on creating tasks with Spring Cloud Task. We used Spring Cloud Data Flow to set up streams and also execute simple tasks.
In the next chapter, we will start understanding a new way of building web applications-- the reactive style. We will understand why nonblocking applications are being hyped up and how reactive applications can be built using Spring Reactive.
