Building Reactive Pipelines: How to go from scalable apps to (ridiculously) scalable systems
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.