Building Reactive Applications with Akka Actors and Java 8 - Akka and Java 8 make it possible to create distributed microservice-based systems that just a few years ago were the stuff of dreams.

Java EE 8 and 9 will focus strongly on resiliency, while built-in "circuit breakers" will isolate problems and standardized health reporting to help manage the environment. With Java's already robust ...

ReactiveX is one of the most established frameworks for reactive programming, and RxJava is its Java-based implementation. Let's see what we can do with RxJava.

Reactive systems are not the same thing as reactive programming. Reactive programming is used at the code level, while reactive systems deal with architecture. And they don’t imply the obligatory use ...

Java would be extended to foreign programming models such as machine learning models, GPUs, SQL, and differential programming, through an OpenJDK proposal called Project Babylon.

"We heard strong feedback from developers that they like the modern, reactive APIs that Flutter, React Native, Litho, and Vue.js represent," the Android team said. "We also heard that developers love ...