Foreword
In the past five years, we have seen reactive progress from a virtually unacknowledged technique used only by fringe projects within a select few corporations to part of the overall platform strategy of numerous big players in many fields, including middleware, financial services, retail, social media, and betting/gaming. Its use has moved beyond early adopters and distributed-systems experts; today, it’s the foundation of some of the most interesting emerging technologies, including cloud computing, microservices, streaming/fast data, and the Internet of Things.
The Reactive Manifesto—which I helped co-author in 2013—defines reactive as a set of architectural design principles that are geared to meeting the demands that systems face ...
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