Reactive Design Patterns

Preface

Even before I had officially joined the Akka team, Mike Stephens from Manning tried to convince me to write a book on Akka. I was tempted to say yes, but in the context of an impending change of jobs and countries, my wife brought me to my senses: such a project would be too much to handle. The idea of writing a book stuck in my head, though. Three years later—after the Reactive Manifesto had been published—Martin Odersky, Erik Meijer, and I taught the course Principles of Reactive Programming on the Coursera platform, reaching more than 120,000 students in two iterations. The idea for that course had been born at a Typesafe engineering meeting where I suggested to Martin that we should nurture the blossoming movement of Reactive programming ...