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For evidence of people in production now, you will find more users of RxJava which has been providing similar functionality for a while (including backpressure support).

I think this convention is one for the future and this release marks the start of adoption. I think the hope is that more implementations will come in the future and one goal is to allow the simple connection of reactive streams and allow the building complex distributed systems.

Also interestingly it looks like this concept might make it into jdk9 as Flow - https://github.com/reactive-streams/reactive-streams-jvm/iss...




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