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R. HedgpethR2DBC Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6989-3_1

1. The Case for Reactive Programming

Robert Hedgpeth1  
(1)
Chicago, IL, USA
 

Buzzword technologies are all too familiar within the software engineering world. For years, some of the most creative minds have given us development innovations that have completely changed the landscape of our solutions. On the other hand, some of those trending technologies have caused us much more pain in the long run. All the hype can be difficult to assess.

In this first chapter, I’d like to address the paradigm of reactive programming , which has been gaining popularity for several years, and help to lay the ...

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