Chapter 1, Getting Started with Reactive Streams, explains the Reactive Streams API and introduces the reactive paradigm and its benefits. The chapter also introduces Reactor as an implementation of Reactive Streams.
Chapter 2, The Publisher and Subscriber APIs in a Reactor, explains the Producer and Subscriber APIs and the corresponding Flux and Mono implications of Reactor. It also discusses use cases of Flux and Mono and the respective Sinks. We will also look into Hot and Cold variants of the components.
Chapter 3, Data and Stream Processing, tackles how we can process data generated by a Publisher before it gets consumed by a Subscriber, the possible operations available, and combining them to build a robust stream-processing ...
