Recording brought to you by American Express. https://americanexpress.io/kotlin-jobs Going from imperative, blocking code to a reactive programming model enables us to scale our apps in ways that aren't possible with a thread scale-out approach, which is a good thing! But as with all optimizations, one must examine & address the system holistically or all we accomplish is moving bottlenecks around, creating or finding new chokepoints as we tune certain applications/services. This is *not* so good. In this session, the presenter discusses: * How Project Reactor builds on reactive streams to help you create performant & scalable reactive microservices * Message brokers & streaming platforms like RabbitMQ & Apache Kafka * How Spring Cloud Stream leverages Reactor to provide fully reactive pipelines for system-wide (ridiculous!) scalability * How Kotlin enables you to do so with less code and more elegance *The presenter will code all examples live and in real time*. This is not an abstract discussion, come to gain real, practical knowledge! Resources: KotlinConf website: https://jb.gg/fyaze5 KotlinConf on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kotlinconf Kotlin website: https://jb.gg/pxrsn6 Kotlin blog: https://jb.gg/7uc7ow Kotlin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kotlin #KotlinConf19 #Kotlin #JetBrains About the Presenter: Mark Heckler is a Pivotal Principal Technologist & Spring Developer Advocate, conference speaker, published author, & Java Champion focusing upon developing innovative production-ready software at velocity for the Cloud and IoT applications. He has worked with key players in the manufacturing, retail, medical, scientific, telecom, and financial industries and various public sector organizations to develop and deliver critical capabilities on time and on budget. Mark is an open source contributor and author/curator of a developer-focused blog (https://www.thehecklers.com) and an occasionally interesting Twitter account (@mkheck).