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Reactive Streams specifications

Let's try to understand in more detail, what the specifications for Reactive Streams are. It is dealing with the asynchronous processing of a stream. Let’s look at the specification available at https://github.com/reactive-streams/reactive-streams-jvm . It comprises the following two parts:

• API: This describes the specification.
• Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK): This is a criteria or standard test suite for compliance testing of implementations. In short, it will make sure the given implementation conforms to the declared specification. 

Taking a closer look at the API, we find that it is rather simple and comprises just four interfaces as follows:

• Publisher: This interface represents an entity that acts ...