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Reactive Programming in Kotlin

Reactive Programming in Kotlin

By : Rivu Chakraborty
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Reactive Programming in Kotlin

Reactive Programming in Kotlin

2.3 (3)
By: Rivu Chakraborty

Overview of this book

In today's app-driven era, when programs are asynchronous, and responsiveness is so vital, reactive programming can help you write code that's more reliable, easier to scale, and better-performing. Reactive programming is revolutionary. With this practical book, Kotlin developers will first learn how to view problems in the reactive way, and then build programs that leverage the best features of this exciting new programming paradigm. You will begin with the general concepts of Reactive programming and then gradually move on to working with asynchronous data streams. You will dive into advanced techniques such as manipulating time in data-flow, customizing operators and provider and how to use the concurrency model to control asynchronicity of code and process event handlers effectively. You will then be introduced to functional reactive programming and will learn to apply FRP in practical use cases in Kotlin. This book will also take you one step forward by introducing you to Spring 5 and Spring Boot 2 using Kotlin. By the end of the book, you will be able to build real-world applications with reactive user interfaces as well as you'll learn to implement reactive programming paradigms in Android.
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When to use Flowables and Observables


By now, you may think Flowable is a handy tool to use, so you could replace Observable everywhere. However, this may not always be the case. Although Flowable provides us with backpressure strategies, Observables are here for a reason, and both of them have their own advantages and disadvantages. So, when to use which? Let's see.

When to use Flowables?

The following are the situations when you should consider using Flowables. Remember, Flowables are slower than Observables:

  • Flowables and backpressure are meant to help deal with larger amounts of data. So, use flowable if your source may emit 10,000+ items. Especially when the source is asynchronous so that the consumer chain may ask the producer to limit/regulate emissions when required.
  • If you are reading from/parsing a file or database.
  • When you want to emit from network IO operations/Streaming APIs that support blocking while returning results, which is how many IO sources work.

When to use Observables...

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