Introduction to Reactive Programming

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In this module, you are going to learn:

• The problem with blocking the execution of a program
• What is reactive programming?
• Programming in a non-blocking, asynchronous, functional style
• How reactive programming is related to the Reactive Manifesto
• What is Project Reactor and how to set it up using Maven

You can find the code for this module here.

Links

• Project Reactor
• David Karnok’s reactive classification
• Reactive Streams specification
• Reactive Manifesto
• IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition
• Project Reactor 3 Release Train BOM

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Table of contents

• The Problem with Blocking
• What is Reactive Programming?
• Non-blocking, Asynchronous, and Functional
• The Reactive Manifesto
• Project Reactor

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