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PHP Reactive Programming

You're reading from PHP Reactive Programming Build fault tolerant and high performing application in PHP based on the reactive architecture

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786462879

Length 364 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Composer

Concepts

Reactive Programming

Author (1):

Martin Sikora

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Reactive Programming

2. Reactive Programming with RxPHP FREE CHAPTER

3. Writing a Reddit Reader with RxPHP

4. Reactive versus a Typical Event-Driven Approach

5. Testing RxPHP Code

6. PHP Streams API and Higher-Order Observables

7. Implementing Socket IPC and WebSocket Server/Client

8. Multicasting in RxPHP and PHP7 pthreads Extension

9. Multithreaded and Distributed Computing with pthreads and Gearman

10. Using Advanced Operators and Techniques in RxPHP

Appendix. Reusing RxPHP Techniques in RxJS

Server Manager application

Finally, we can start writing the largest application so far. The Server Manager is going to be a CLI application that will be responsible for spawning WebSocket servers, where each server is a standalone application itself, with its own clients and chat history.

A typical use-case could be a Unix server that manages multiple instances of some game server. Each server needs to be isolated. If any of them crashed, we don't want all games servers on this machine to crash as well. At the same time, we want to be able to collect some status information from servers and monitor them in real time with the Server Manager.

We can describe the structure of this entire application and what role the Server Manager has with the following diagram:

In this diagram, we can see the Server Manager application on the right. It communicates via Unix sockets with a single instance of Game Server. This instance of Game Server has two clients connected to it via WebSockets.

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Authors (1)

Sikora

Sikora

Martin Sikora has been professionally programming since 2006 for companies such as Miton CZ, Symbio Digital, and PRIA in various languages, mostly PHP and TypeScript. Since 2017, he's freelancing, trying to work on open source projects in TypeScript, PHP, Dart, C, and Python. He's been actively contributing to RxPHP and RxJS 5 on both Github and Stack Overflow. He is a Zend certified engineer and was a member of the winning team during Google Dart Hackathon 2012 in Prague. His first publication was Dart Essentials, by Packt, published in May 2015. Occasionally, Martin writes articles for https://www.smashingmagazine.com/. You can connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-sikora-a63b9a30/ or GitHub at https://github.com/martinsik.

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