Guide to Spring Reactive Programming using WebFlux

Reactive programming is a programming paradigm that promotes an asynchronous, non-blocking, event driven approach to data processing. Reactive programming involves modelling data and events as observable data streams and implementing data processing routines to react to the changes in those streams. In the reactive style of programming, we make a request for the resource and start performing other things. When the data is available, we get the notification along with the data in the form of call back function. In the callback function, we handle the response as per application /user needs. Features of Reactive Programming Asynchronous & Non-blocking Functional style of coding Data flow as event driven stream Backpressure on data streams When considering whether to use Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux, there are various factors you must consider. Spring MVC: It’s based on a servlet API and follows an imperative pr...