Introduction to Reactive Programming

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In this module, we’re going to review:

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

Note: This is a work-in-progress. I still have to add the images that accompany the text and the content is subject to change.

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Table of contents

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

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