Reactive microservices

Now that we have a better understanding of reactive systems, we need to consider why we should create reactive microservices. If we look at microservices and remember what drove SoA into microservices, we could view what we need to create more complex applications and produce a better system for our users driving the architecture. With the new reactive programming model, we could create fast and non-blocking software that will utilize better the resources of our infrastructure. We could provide better responsiveness, and we could simplify our development to create highly reusable services that could be connected loosely with each other. And considering how aligned the reactive systems are with our principles and the extensive support of frameworks that they have, we conclude that the way forward for modern microservices is to become reactive.

We will explore more of this topic in Chapter 4, Creating Reactive Microservices.