Characteristics of Reactive Systems

The following figure shows the important characteristics of Reactive Systems:

The important characteristics are as follows:

  • Responsive: Systems respond in a timely manner to their users. Clear response time requirements are set, and the system meets them in all situations.
  • Resilient: Distributed systems are built using multiple components. Failures can occur in any of these components. Reactive Systems should be designed to contain failures within a localized space, for example, within each component. This prevents the entire system from going down in cases of local failure.
  • Elastic: Reactive Systems stay ...

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