Real-world Reactive Programming in Java: The Definitive Guide

GOTO Amsterdam 2018

Everything is reactive. Your application reacts to the click of a button, an incoming message. But also to the result of a database query. Between these events, you want to process other tasks. Being reactive needs a complete approach. Let’s look at the state of reactive programming in Java. Which frameworks are available? Do we have everything to build enterprise grade reactive applications? How to we produce readable and maintainable code?

We will explain which framework we use in our microservice platform for a cryptocurrency trading application, why we chose reactive programming and which issue we ran into.

This is the complete overview of reactive programming in Java.