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Today I learned why real-time collaboration at scale is much harder than it looks. While reading about Canva's architecture, I came across RSocket and two concepts that stood out: • Multiplexing — multiple logical channels over a single connection, reducing connection overhead.

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Spring Boot WebFlux RSocket – Reactive Communication Over TCP: For real-time, low-latency systems, HTTP isn’t always enough. RSocket enables multiplexed, async, backpressured communication over WebSocket or TCP. Spring Boot WebFlux integrates directly with RSocket, allowing reactive request/response, streams, fire-and-forget, etc. It’s ideal for game backends, financial feeds, or chat apps.

Reactive Programming in Spring Boot Java 👉 - Spring WebFlux (Alternative to Spring MVC) - Mono vs Flux - Backpressure handling - Reactive MongoDB / Cassandra / Kafka - Integration with RSocket Spring WebFlux and reactive programming (Mono/Flux) are designed to handle asynchronous, non-blocking, and event-driven systems with high concurrency and low latency.

rSocket and gRPC anyone? Also check how http3 retains connection.

rsocket-kotlin 0.20.0 is here! > Migrated to kotlinx-io and ktor 3.x - up to 10x faster > New transports API - consistent DSL > QUIC support via Netty - highly experimental > Wasm and all native targets support github.com/rsocket/rsocket-k… And a bit about the future in the thread🧵

Today’s focus 🔥 yarn add rsocket-core rsocket-websocket-client Time to get my hands dirty and dive in.

Meta also created or worked on Rsocket, and GraphQL, two of my favorite OSs Projects

I experienced using Kotlin in backend projects that truly used its capabilities, using Ktor, Ktor Client, coroutines with proper testing, flow, RSocket, and other tools, and after that, I can't imagine going back to Java. I believe any developer with such experience would not willfully choose Java for a greenfield project.

I would say it's alive, but very niche. Community around it is rather small as currently there are no companies which bake it :( RSocket is much more than just reactive streams. You can read my big thread about it:

RSocket is a great tool. Maybe it is time to get greater community support for it. @oleg_nenashev, maybe some insights on how to do it better?

Hey Kotlin developers! Would anyone be interested in taking over / helping with the maintenance of rsocket-kotlin? :) github.com/rsocket/rsocket-k… Lately, I just can’t seem to find time for it at all… By the end of the year (or in January), I plan to do a release with kotlinx-io ktor 3.0 QUIC. Beyond that, it’s hard to say when I’ll be able to contribute further, but I’ll do my best… Please contact me if you are interested in Slack/X/e-mail or anywhere else! P.S. I really have a lot of ideas on features/improvements there but I just don’t have enough time to implement them. On current moment my other open source projects have bigger priority for me (and probably for Kotlin community)

If you are a backend developer, you must be familiar with these protocols Don't have to know them all, just know what is required 1. HTTP/HTTPS: For web and REST APIs; used in websites, e-commerce platforms, and blogs. 2. WebSocket: For real-time communication; used in chat apps, multiplayer games, and live dashboards. 3. gRPC: For efficient inter-service communication; used in microservices and IoT applications. 4. GraphQL: For dynamic data queries; used in modern web/mobile apps needing specific data fetching. 5. MQTT: For lightweight messaging; used in IoT devices and real-time telemetry systems. 6. AMQP: For reliable message delivery; used in distributed systems and task queues. 7. REST: For simple API communication; used in CRUD-based apps and backend services. 8. SOAP: For structured enterprise communication; used in financial and enterprise-grade systems. 9. DNS: For domain resolution; used in load balancing and routing internet traffic. 10. FTP/SFTP: For secure file transfers; used in server backups and data migration. 11. RSocket: For reactive streams; used in streaming platforms and real-time systems. 12. TCP/IP: For reliable data transfer; used in networking tools and low-level communication.

Also when you define a backend application in a framework like Ktor, that is coroutines-first, if an HTTP connection is lost, call gets immediately cancelled, the same if WebSocket or RSocket connection is lost.

Also when you define a backend application in a framework like Ktor, that is coroutines-first, if an HTTP connection is lost, call gets immediately cancelled, the same if WebSocket or RSocket connection is lost.

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