I don’t always write reactive applications, but when I do, it runs on Raspberry Pi

Are you a programmer? Do you want to be cool? Do you want to write an application that is performant, scalable, and resilient? And what if we could even run this application on a cluster of Raspberry Pis?

Developing a monolithic application, saturated with enterprise stacks, to be deployed in monstrous JBoss clusters on steroids, is not necessarily the ideal approach.

The reactive manifesto proposes a more modular approach allowing us to achieve better scalability and better resilience. But that’s the theory—how do we achieve this result? Which technologies should we turn to? What pitfalls should we avoid?

This session will be an opportunity to dissect a reactive application based on microservices and Event Sourcing with tools like Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Play 2, and Akka.

We will then have the opportunity to verify if the reactive approach lives up to its promises when hardware is somewhat constrained…