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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

Even more on FRP and F#


The second half of the chapter shows how we can make the best use of F# and what the Microsoft .NET Framework makes available to enjoy and adopt FRP.

In the last few years, technology has evolved at an increasing rate. Nowadays, everything is connected and, in the future, each and every device will be able to receive and send data to and from each other. This will certainly lead to a technical evolution about the way we write the code. Let's think, only for a minute, about the notification messages that appear in our smartphone, our personal computer, and even in our smartwatch. All these need is a reactive system that is able to send millions if not billions of these messages simultaneously on multiple devices.

This is why functional programming and (Functional) Reactive Programming in particular play a key role in this evolution.

Social networks, e-commerce servers dedicated in sending information from and to IoT devices, are already using hybrid systems that complement...