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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)

Reactivity for everyone

In previous chapters, we have learned a lot of exciting things about reactive programming in Spring, as well as the role RxJava plays in its story. We also looked at the need to use reactive programming to implement the reactive system. We have also seen a brief overview of the reactive landscape and available alternatives to RxJava, which makes it possible to quickly start with reactive programming.

The API's inconsistency problem

On the one hand, the extensive list of competitive libraries, such as RxJava and features of the Java Core library, such as CompletableStage, give us a choice as to the way in which we write code. For example, we may rely on reaching the API of RxJava...