Hands-On Reactive Programming with Reactor

ReactiveX

Reactive Extensions, also known as ReactiveX, enable us to express the asynchronous events in an application as a set of observable sequences. Other applications can subscribe to these observables, in order to receive notifications of events that are occurring. A producer can then push these notification events to a consumer as they arrive. Alternatively, if a consumer is slow, it can pull notification events according to its own consumption rate. The end-to-end system of a producer and its consumers is known as a pipeline. It is important to note that pipelines are lazy by default and do not materialize until they are subscribed to by a consumer. This is very different from eager Java types, like Future, which represent active ...