SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux
Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation
through open source, today announced the launch of the Reactive
Foundation, a community of leaders established to accelerate
technologies for building the next generation of networked
applications. The foundation is made up of Alibaba, Lightbend,
Netifi and Pivotal as initial members and includes the successful
open source RSocket specification, along with programming
language implementations.
The aim of reactive programming is to build applications that
maintain a consistent user experience regardless of traffic on the
network, infrastructure performance and different end user devices
(computers, tablets, smartphones). Reactive programming uses a
message-driven approach to achieve the resiliency, scalability and
responsiveness that is required for today's networked cloud-native
applications, independent of their underlying infrastructure.
The Reactive Foundation establishes a formal open
governance model and neutral ecosystem for supporting open source
reactive programming projects.
"From the beginning of our work on RSocket during my time at
Netflix, our intent was to have an open system that encouraged
broad adoption, which is essential for networking technology. We're
thrilled to be hosted at the Linux Foundation with commitment from
leaders and disruptors in the industry, and are excited to make
progress enabling reactive programming," said Ryland Degnan, Co-Founder and CTO at Netifi and
Foundation community chair.
"With the rise of cloud-native computing and modern application
development practices, reactive programming addresses challenges
with message streams and will be critical to adoption," said
Michael Dolan, VP of Strategic
Programs at the Linux Foundation. "With the Reactive Foundation,
the industry now has a neutral home for supporting the open source
projects enabling reactive programming."
RSocket is an open source protocol that builds upon
reactive streams to provide application flow control over the
network to prevent outages and increase resiliency of applications.
It is designed to support reactive programming and today's modern
microservices-based and cloud-native applications as a
high-performance replacement of traditional HTTP. RSocket allows
the use of a single connection, through which messages are passed
as streams of data. It enables long-lived streams across different
transport connections, which is particularly useful for mobile to
server communication where network connections drop, switch, and
reconnect frequently.
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"RSocket is designed to shine in the era of microservice and IoT
devices," said Andy Shi, Developer
Advocate at Alibaba. "We believe the projects built on top of
RSocket protocol and reactive streams in general will disrupt the
landscape of microservices architecture. The Reactive Foundation is
the hub of these exciting projects."
"The RSocket application protocol is an essential replacement
for HTTP, delivering resilience and high performance for networked
cloud-native applications and microservices communication," said
Arsalan Farooq, CEO of Netifi. "The
Reactive Foundation will extend efforts to build a broader open
source community around RSocket and reactive programming."
"Many observers, from industry analysts to decision makers and
developers are recognizing the positive impact of designing
reactive software," said Stephane
Maldini, Project Reactor Lead at Pivotal. "After more than a
decade of innovations, the reactive ecosystem is making it into
mainstream adoption with Project Reactor, Spring Boot and the Spring Framework
accelerating its adoption. The Reactive Foundation could not come
at a better time for consolidating this position with defining
projects like RSocket. Together, we can build hyper efficient,
scalable distributed systems by rethinking the way we design them
and by using the right protocol to coordinate them. The Reactive
Foundation is an invitation for everyone ready to embark on this
transformative journey."
"When I co-wrote the Reactive Manifesto in 2013, we
anticipated a major industry shift in building systems that
react to modern demands on services and since then more than 26,000
people have signed on," said Jonas Bonér, CTO and Co-Founder of
Lightbend. "The Reactive Foundation is a critical milestone in
bringing together technology industry leaders to embrace a
message-driven architecture to support cloud-native applications
built to be robust, resilient, flexible and written with modern
hardware, virtualization, rich web clients and mobile clients in
mind."
To find more information on the Reactive Foundation or get
involved in the project, please visit:
https://reactive.foundation/
About the Linux Foundation
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top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate
open technology development and industry adoption. Together with
the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest
technology problems by creating the largest shared technology
investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today
provides tools, training and events to scale any open source
project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable
by any one company. More information can be found at
www.linuxfoundation.org.
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