Hands-On Reactive Programming in Spring 5

Polyglot persistence

In 2006, Neal Ford proposed the term polyglot programming. This expresses the idea that software systems may be written with a mix of different languages to get the most significant boost from the best-fit language in a business or technical context. After that, a lot of new programming languages were introduced with the intention of being the best in a specific area, or good in multiple areas.

At the same time, another similar mind-shift happened in the area of data persistence. This caused people to question what would happen if different application parts used different persistence techniques depending on business or technical requirements. For example, storing HTTP sessions for distributed web applications and storing ...