Reading Time: 3 minutes In this blog, we are going to learn about Backpressure in the Project reactor. What is Backpressure Backpressure is the ability of a Consumer to signal the Producer that the rate of emission is higher than what it can handle. So using this mechanism, the Consumer gets control over the speed at which data is emitted. Using this, the Subscriber controls the data flow from the Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes “Reactive Streams”, whenever we come across these words, there are two things that come to our mind. The first is asynchronous stream processing and the second is non-blocking backpressure. In this blog, we are going to learn about the latter part. Understanding back pressure According to the English dictionary, back pressure means “Resistance or force opposing the desired flow of fluid through pipes”. To define Continue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes As you all might have known by now that one of the hot topics for quite some time has been streaming of big data. Day after day, we see tons of streaming technologies out there competing with one another. The obvious reason for that, processing big volumes of data is not enough. We need real-time processing of data, especially when we need to handle continuously increasing Continue Reading
