Design Patterns and Best Practices in Java

Asynchronous-communication pattern

While we are discussing the responsive pillar of reactive programming, another important pattern one needs to consider is the asynchronous-communication pattern. While the request-response pattern makes sure that all the requests get successful responses, it does not take care of the fact that some of the requests might take a large amount of time to respond. The asynchronous-communication pattern helps our application to remain responsive, even if we are doing bulk tasks. The way we achieve responsiveness or quick responses is by making the core-task execution asynchronous. Think of it as your code requesting a service to do a certain task, say, updating the data in a database; the service receives the ...