Hands-On Reactive Programming in Spring 5

Systems that handle clients with slow connections

A second application of WebFlux is in building systems that are intended to work with mobile devices of clients with a slow or unstable network connection. To understand why WebFlux is useful in this area, let's remind ourselves what is going on when we are dealing with a slow connection. The problem is that transferring data from a client to a server may take a significant amount of time and the corresponding response may also take a lot of time. With the use of the thread-per-connection model, there is a higher chance of crashing the system with an increasing number of connected clients. For instance, using a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack, hackers may easily make our server unavailable. ...