{"id":7734,"date":"2013-08-28T12:22:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T17:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7734"},"modified":"2013-08-28T14:59:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T19:59:32","slug":"principles-of-reactive-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/28\/principles-of-reactive-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Principles of Reactive Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coursera is offering what looks like an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/course\/reactive\">interesting course<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=6285149\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/course\/reactive\"><p>The aim of the second course is to teach the principles of reactive programming. Reactive programming is an emerging discipline which combines concurrency and event-based and asynchronous systems. It is essential for writing any kind of web-service or distributed system and is also at the core of many high-performance concurrent systems. Reactive programming can be seen as a natural extension of higher-order functional programming to concurrent systems that deal with distributed state by coordinating and orchestrating asynchronous data streams exchanged by actors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the instructors is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erik_Meijer_(computer_scientist)\">Erik Meijer<\/a>, creator of the Reactive Extensions (Rx) C# library.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coursera is offering what looks like an interesting course (via Hacker News): The aim of the second course is to teach the principles of reactive programming. Reactive programming is an emerging discipline which combines concurrency and event-based and asynchronous systems. It is essential for writing any kind of web-service or distributed system and is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[351,263,71,548],"class_list":["post-7734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-c-sharp","tag-theory","tag-programming","tag-scala"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7746,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734\/revisions\/7746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}