Reactive or non-blocking processing is in high demand, but before adopting it, one should deeply understand its thread model. For thread model two things are very important to know: thread communication and execution flow. In this blog, I will try to explain both of these topics in-depth.
What Is Reactive Programming?
There are lots of definitions on the web; the Wiki definition is a bit theoretical and generic. From a threading perspective, my version is "Reactive Programming is the processing of the asynchronous event stream, on which you can observe.”