Reactive Streams 1.0.0 has reached its objective of defining a common standard for asynchronous streaming processes on the JVM, for flexible and reactive data processing. Since February 2014, representatives from Typesafe, Red Hat, Netflix, Pivotal, Oracle, Twitter and spray.io have been collaborating in various work groups to define a standard for asynchronous data streaming on the JVM. Not an easy task, considering what it was that Reactive Streams was aiming for: to “provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking back pressure.”
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