async goes mainstream: 7 reactive programming tools you must know

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7 Reactive Programming Tools You Must Know

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What it actually means to be Reactive?

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Reactive Programming Tools

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1. AkkaOpen source Reactive toolkit is one of the most advanced yet stable approaches to software development today.

What’s unique about it?

• Message-Driven Actors & Futures

• Distributed by design

• Built for the JVM

•Links:• Download Akka

• Akka/hAkkers team

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2. ReactiveXAn API for asynchronous programming with observable streams.

Open source and awaiting contributions, used by companies like Github, Trello and Microsoft.

What’s unique about it?

• Observable streams

• Scheduler

• Language agnostic

•Links:• Get Started

• Twitter stream

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3. Typesafe ConductRA management tool for Operations to deploy and control Reactive applications running in a cluster.

Provides a RESTful API to integrate with existing tools (e.g. Amazon EC2, Docker, Puppet, Chef, Ansible and Akka Cluster)

What’s unique about it?

• Distributable and trackable by default

• Immutable deployments

• Load balancing and replication

•Link:• Product’s page

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4. TakipiDetects all caught and uncaught exceptions, HTTP and log errors, and shows the code and variable state that caused them.

What’s unique about it?

• Spend less time and energy debugging

• Know which errors affect you the most

• Deploying without risk

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5. Kamon.ioOpen source set of tools to help monitor Reactive applications, enriching the ecosystem of Reactive tools.

What’s unique about it?

• Akka actors metrics and tracing

• Reporting to external services

• No code changeso Kamon instruments your bytecode to report

the metrics.

• Link:• Getting started guide

• Twitter stream

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6. AeronAn open source messaging library designed to deliver millions of messages per second, with microsecond latencies between machines.

What’s unique about it?

• Low latency

• Predictable Performanceo Steady and replicable response times to rely on.

•Link:

• Github guide

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7. LMAX DisruptorLMAX Disruptor is a messaging library for low latency Inter-Thread communication.

What’s unique about it?

• Multicast events

• Pre-allocate memory for events –o Allows for even lower latency messaging.

• Optionally lock-free

o Implemented with lock-free algorithms.

• Link:

• Home page

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Conclusion

We have seen some of the more advanced tools, libraries and frameworks available to support and debug Reactive applications.

Now we can hope for a future where all systems are responsive.

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