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O'Reilly Book release: "Why Reactive?"
This post was originally written on 13 Nov 2016.

O'Reilly recently reached out to me to write a small report / mini-book about reactive systems and architectures. The report is structured around explaining the various aspects of Reactive. Tracking it's origins, through Reactive Programming (in chapter 2 "Reactive on the Application level") and Reactive Systems (in chapter 3 "Reactive on the System level").

The book does not focus on any single implementation or library, and rather discusses the conceptual goals, benefits and trade-offs such architectures bring with them.

If you're curious what this reactive is about, I'd like to invite you to give it a read. As it's a report, it is available for free, you just need to go to: Why Reactive? Download the report.

  • Update: It is also available as article directly online here on O'Reilly Learning.
  • Update 2: Some reviews made it to GoodReads, thanks everyone. 🙏

I'd like to thank everyone who helped me writing this report–especially Jonas BonĂ©r for his invaluable feedback–thank you.