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/Introduction to Reactive Programming
Introduction to Reactive Programming
Learn about reactive programming with reactor types.
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Reactive programming has existed for years. We can find academic papers on facets of it going back to the 1970s. There have been asynchronous, event-driven programming stacks available for years, too.
So, why hasn’t it been picked up in the mainstream?
This is probably because most shops haven’t needed it. The world is entering a new era, though. Startups have to serve content to millions of users, international audiences demand around-the-clock operational support, and as the cloud-based hosting of applications grows in popularity, simply adding more servers doesn’t work.