Spring 5.0 Projects

Reactive Streams

Reactive Streams is described simply as an initiative to provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking backpressure. It is a small and straightforward statement. However, it is essential to note that the first focus here is on the asynchronous stream processing and not just on the asynchronous programming. As discussed earlier, asynchronous systems have been around for a long time.

Before processing a stream, comes receiving the stream data. Asynchronously, this would mean managing the risk of uncertainties in the world of streams. For example, how much more data or messages could there be? Another challenge might be how to know when the stream has finished sending data. There could be a lot of questions, ...