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Hands-On Reactive Programming in Spring 5

You're reading from   Hands-On Reactive Programming in Spring 5 Build cloud-ready, reactive systems with Spring 5 and Project Reactor

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787284951
Length 556 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Why Reactive Spring? FREE CHAPTER 2. Reactive Programming in Spring - Basic Concepts 3. Reactive Streams - the New Streams' Standard 4. Project Reactor - the Foundation for Reactive Apps 5. Going Reactive with Spring Boot 2 6. WebFlux Async Non-Blocking Communication 7. Reactive Database Access 8. Scaling Up with Cloud Streams 9. Testing the Reactive Application 10. And, Finally, Release It! 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

As we have learned from the previous example, Reactive Streams drastically increases the composability of reactive libraries. We have also learned that the most useful way to verify the compatibility of the Publisher is just to apply Technology Compatibility Test Kits, which are provided with the Reactive Streams specification.

At the same time, the specification brings a pull-push communication model for Reactive Streams. This addition solves the backpressure controlling problem and at the same time reinforces communication flexibility by offering a choice of which model to use.

After the Reactive Streams Specification was included in JDK9, its significance skyrocketed. However, as we learned, this improvement brought some overheads in the need for type conversion between two variants of the specification.

As we understood from the previous...

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