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12. Reactive Programming Using Spring WebFlux

K. Siva Prasad Reddy

(1)Hyderabad, India

Modern IT business needs have changed significantly compared to a few years ago. The amount of data that is being generated from various sources like social media sites, IoT devices, sensors, and the like is humongous. The traditional data processing models may not be suitable to process such a huge volume of data. Even though we have better hardware support these days, many of the existing APIs are synchronous and blocking APIs, which become bottlenecks to better throughput.

Reactive programming is a programming paradigm that promotes an asynchronous, ...

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