Reactive Relational Database Connectivity by Ben Hale

As more and more projects start incorporating reactive programming, they begin to discover that the only way to get the full benefit of that change is to ensure that they have a fully reactive stack. There are a number of messaging systems and data stores that enable this fully reactive stack, but there has been a big piece missing when it comes to accessing relational database systems in a fully reactive way. This talk presents the Reactive Relational Database Connectivity (R2DBC) project. The project is an effort to design a reactive API for accessing a relational database access. This talk will explain how the API works, the benefits of using it, and how it contrasts with other projects in the same space.