Reactive Spring

In this example-driven presentation, we'll take a high-level look at how Spring applies reactive programming at all layers of an application. You'll also learn the essentials of working with Project Reactor, the reactive programming library for Java that Spring's reactive support builds upon.

Traditionally, applications have been built using a blocking, synchronous model. Although comfortable and intuitive for most programmers, this model doesn't scale well. And although there are several new approaches to reactive programming, they don't necessarily fit into the familiar programming model that Spring developers are accustomed to working with.

Spring 5 introduced a set of new reactive features, enabling non-blocking, asynchronous code that scales well using minimal threads. Moreover, it builds on the same concepts and programming models that Spring developers have used for years.