Diving into Reactive: a live-coding adventure

Reactive programming offers developers a way to build message-driven, elastic, resilient, and responsive services...yet many developers don't know where to begin in order to leverage these capabilities. Spring and Project Reactor provide a great way to become immediately productive, going reactive from end to end.

In this live-coding adventure, you'll see you how to:

* integrate easily with existing Spring-stack technologies
* easily transition from blocking to reactive applications & systems
* define your API in an imperative style *and* functionally, reaping all benefits both ways
* leverage powerful new mechanisms to reduce blocking, improve testing, and increase scalability

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1. Diving into Reactive A live-coding adventure Mark Heckler Professional Problem Solver, Spring Developer Advocate www.thehecklers.com mark@thehecklers.com mheckler@pivotal.io @mkheck
2. @mkheck www.thehecklers.com Who am I? • Author • Architect & Developer • Java Champion, Rockstar • Professional Problem Solver • Spring Developer & Advocate • Creador y curador de
3. @mkheck www.thehecklers.com New book! But you can’t buy it yet… DISCLAIMER: artist’s rendition only, not the real cover
4. @mkheck www.thehecklers.com –Rossen Stoyanchev, Project Reactor team “In a nutshell reactive programming is about non-blocking, event-driven applications that scale with a small number of threads with backpressure as a key ingredient that aims to ensure producers do not overwhelm consumers.”
5. @mkheck www.thehecklers.com Reactive Streams: 4 interfaces Publisher<T> Subscriber<T> Subscription Processor<T,R>
6. @mkheck www.thehecklers.com What else? Reactive database access RSocket Testing, debugging, blocking call identification (and more)
7. @mkheck www.thehecklers.com Let’s code!
8. @mkheck www.thehecklers.com
9. @mkheck www.thehecklers.com Resources https://github.com/mkheck/DIR http://www.reactive-streams.org https://projectreactor.io Thanks for coming, stay in touch!