The Spring Framework and the Reactor teams have been busy working on support for reactive programming models over the last 2 years. By the end of this year Reactor 2.5 will be GA and Spring Framework 5 will have a release candidate. This talk will explain the major paradigm shift that's taking place and demonstrate what is arguably one of the most consequential additions to Spring Framework 5. Rossen Stoyanchev is a Spring Framework committer focus on web development including Spring MVC as well as the upcoming Spring 5 Web Reactive support. [RZQ-2819]