Reactive microservices

Reactive programming is currently a trend topic. This is mainly because of the benefits to implementing software using this new paradigm. Spring Framework 5.0 included numerous changes to give the advantage of this programming model and many new components of the Spring family have evolved to support it. In fact new Spring libraries have been created to add additional support to applications interested in what is called the reactive revolution. Additionally, Spring has rewritten the core of the framework, using reactive technologies that will allow a better technology for the applications that use them. In this section, we will understand the basics and principles of reactive programming and how we could apply it to create reactive microservices.