Beginning Helidon: Building Cloud-Native Microservices and Applications

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13. Going Reactive

Dmitry Kornilov¹  , Daniel Kec¹ and Dmitry Aleksandrov²

(1)

Praha, Czech Republic

(2)

Sofia, Bulgaria

 

This chapter covers the following topics.

• Using Reactive Streams instead of simple callbacks on asynchronous APIs

• Understanding the inner structure of Reactive Streams

• Connecting streams together

• Using Helidon’s reactive stream operators, producing and consuming data

The last few years have seen emerging technological trends in the never-ending chase after better performance. APIs started to change from a here is my thread—block it until things are ready