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C++ Reactive Programming

By : Praseed Pai, Peter Abraham
Book Image

C++ Reactive Programming

By: Praseed Pai, Peter Abraham

Overview of this book

Reactive programming is an effective way to build highly responsive applications with an easy-to-maintain code base. This book covers the essential functional reactive concepts that will help you build highly concurrent, event-driven, and asynchronous applications in a simpler and less error-prone way. C++ Reactive Programming begins with a discussion on how event processing was undertaken by different programming systems earlier. After a brisk introduction to modern C++ (C++17), you’ll be taken through language-level concurrency and the lock-free programming model to set the stage for our foray into the Functional Programming model. Following this, you’ll be introduced to RxCpp and its programming model. You’ll be able to gain deep insights into the RxCpp library, which facilitates reactive programming. You’ll learn how to deal with reactive programming using Qt/C++ (for the desktop) and C++ microservices for the Web. By the end of the book, you will be well versed with advanced reactive programming concepts in modern C++ (C++17).
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Event Stream programming


We have got some kind of understanding about the working of  Stream programming model.When we process events as Streams, it can be categorized  as Event Stream programming. In the programming community, event-driven architecture is being projected as a better model for crafting modern programs. A wonderful example of software that relies on Event Stream programming is version control systems. In a version control system, everything is treated as an event. Typical examples include checking out the code, commits, rollbacks, and branching.

Advantages of Event Stream programming

Aggregating events as a Stream and processing  them in downstream  systems has many advantages compared to the traditional Event programming model. Some of the key advantages are:

  • Event source and Event sinks are not coupled
  • Event sinks can process events without bothering with Event sources
  • We can apply Stream processing operators to process and filter Streams
  • The transformation and filtering can...