Enterprise deployment of "reactive" systems is no longer a fringe concept enjoyed by a handful of early adopters. According to the Reactive Manifesto, developing these message-driven, elastic, resilient, consistent, and highly responsive applications is what’s fueling the new wave of systems that are deployed on everything from mobile devices to cloud-based clusters running thousands of multi-core processors. Users expect millisecond response times and constant uptime. See also: As Systems Get More Complex, Programming Is Getting "Reactive" Web-giant enterprises like Twitter, Facebook, Google and Netflix measure their data in petabytes, but even smaller companies face enormous pressure to keep pace with the market. Expectations have changed—rather than batch processing, both users and lines of business expect data to be processed in real-time for both user experience and a competitive advantage in the market. This can strain legacy architectures, even those dealing with “medium data”... - Web2024