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Reactive Programming for .NET Developers

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Reactive Programming for .NET Developers

Overview of this book

Reactive programming is an innovative programming paradigm focused on time-based problem solving. It makes your programs better-performing, easier to scale, and more reliable. Want to create fast-running applications to handle complex logics and huge datasets for financial and big-data challenges? Then you have picked up the right book! Starting with the principles of reactive programming and unveiling the power of the pull-programming world, this book is your one-stop solution to get a deep practical understanding of reactive programming techniques. You will gradually learn all about reactive extensions, programming, testing, and debugging observable sequence, and integrating events from CLR data-at-rest or events. Finally, you will dive into advanced techniques such as manipulating time in data-flow, customizing operators and providers, and exploring functional reactive programming. By the end of the book, you'll know how to apply reactive programming to solve complex problems and build efficient programs with reactive user interfaces.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Reactive Programming for .NET Developers
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Preface

Tracing sequences


The most widely used diagnostic solution is application tracing; in a few words, it is the art of logging the application execution flow with emphasis on the event type and its description.

This is the same in reactive programming, thus, we have the ability to use specific sequences that mark messages with additional metadata or log out messages to analyze (or dump for further usages) the sequence flow in addition to the usual tracing tools available within the .NET world.

More than a simple reactive way of tracing, we can design specific diagnostic sequence flows with related filtering or manipulation, and the ability to use any other reactive operator to help us isolate interesting diagnostic information.

Materialize

The Materialize extension method produces a new sequence for diagnostic purposes that flows messages containing additional metadata information about the messages flowing in the sourcing sequence.

The great advantage of materializing a sequence is the ability...