Reactive Systems Explained

Preface

First, we’d like to acknowledge those who created a vocabulary for discussing the principles of modern, distributed application architecture and authored the Reactive Manifesto. We are grateful to this community of innovators who continue to refine these concepts and realize them in the software they create. We extend our deep gratitude to Viktor Klang for taking time to provide the foreword for this report and for his leadership in the reactive systems community. We would also like to thank our reviewers, Jason Yong, Jeremy Hughes, Neil Patterson, and Grant Steinfeld, whose comments helped shape this report and make it of the highest quality. A big thanks to Anita Chung for urging us to take on this project and providing encouragement throughout the process. We are also indebted to many colleagues who have produced some of the material on reactive systems that served to inform this report, including Jonas Bonér, Kevin Webber, Hugh McKee, Iain Lewis, and Mark Sturdevant. Finally, we would like to thank Sarah Grey and the O’Reilly team for their editorial guidance and support as we created this report.

We dedicate this book to our friends and family for supporting us through its creation and for being a constant source of inspiration and encouragement.

Grace: I would like to personally dedicate this book to my parents, Colette and Patrick Jansen, and to my brother and sister, Matthew Jansen and Eleanor Jansen, for encouraging me to pursue my passion through a career in ...