Reactive Web Applications

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Cover Illustration

1. Getting started with reactive web applications

Chapter 1. Did you say reactive?

1.1. Putting reactive into context

1.1.1. Origins of reactive

1.1.2. The Reactive Manifesto

1.1.3. Reactive programming

1.1.4. The emergence of reactive technologies

1.2. Rethinking computational resource utilization

1.2.1. Threaded versus evented web application servers

1.2.2. Developing web applications fit for multicore architectures

1.2.3. The horizontal application architecture

1.3. Failure-handling as first-class concern

1.3.1. Failure is inevitable

1.3.2. Building applications with failure in mind