Reactive APIs are a powerful way to handle and serve large amounts of data and large numbers of requests in a web application. They rely on a “server-side event” model in which the client (e.g. your browser) subscribes to “events” on the server, and the server “pushes” events to the client as they become available. For simple CRUD applications this is not very useful. However, in situations with millions of “subscribers” it can offer improved...

Read more