Chapter 7. Implementing Reactive Design Patterns
In this chapter, we will explore one of the most important features of the Spring 5 Framework, which is reactive pattern programming. The Spring 5 Framework introduced this new feature with the Spring web reactive module. We will discuss this module in this chapter. Before that, let's have a look at reactive patterns. What is the reactive pattern, and why is it growing more popular nowadays? I will start my discussion on reactive pattern with the following statement made by Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft Corporation:
Every business out there now is a software company, is a digital company.
The topics we will cover here are as follows:
- Why reactive pattern?
- The reactive pattern principles
- Blocking calls
- Non-blocking calls
- Back-pressure
- Implementing the reactive pattern using the Spring Framework
- The Spring web reactive module
