Hands-On Reactive Programming in Spring 5

Summary

In this chapter, we highlighted the requirements for cost-efficient IT solutions that often arise nowadays. We described why and how big companies such as Amazon failed to force old architectural patterns to work smoothly in current cloud-based distributed environments.

We also established the need for new architectural patterns and programming techniques to fulfill the ever-growing demand for convenient, efficient, and intelligent digital services. With the Reactive Manifesto, we deconstructed and comprehended the term reactivity and also described why and how elasticity, resilience, and message-driven approaches help to achieve responsiveness, probably the primary non-functional system requirement in the digital era. Of course, ...