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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)

Going Reactive with Spring Boot 2

In the previous chapter, we learned the essentials of Project Reactor, as well as the behavior of reactive types and operators and how they help to solve different business problems. Along with the straightforward API, we saw that, under the hood, there are hidden complex mechanisms that allow concurrent, asynchronous, nonblocking message processing. In addition to this, we explored available backpressure controls and related strategies. As we saw in the previous chapter, Project Reactor is more than just a reactive programming library. It also offers add-ons and adapters that make it possible to build reactive systems, even without the Spring Framework. Through this, we saw an integration of Project Reactor with Apache Kafka and Netty.

While Project Reactor may work well without Spring Framework, it is usually not enough to build a...