The Reactive Principles

This document provides guidance and techniques established among experienced Reactive practitioners for building individual services, applications, and whole systems. As a companion to the Reactive Manifesto, it incorporates the ideas, paradigms, methods, and patterns from both Reactive Programming and Reactive Systems into a set of practical principles that software architects and developers can apply in their transformative work.

Our purpose is to help businesses realize the efficiencies inherent to using Reactive. Our collective experience shows that these principles enable the design and implementation of highly concurrent and distributed software that is performant, scalable, and resilient, while at the same time conserving resources when deploying, operating, and maintaining it. Further application of Reactive principles will allow us as a society to depend on software for making our diverse and distributed civilization more robust.