Reactive programming in action - part 1

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ReactiveX

This post shows how reactive programming is used in one of DataBeacon’s central software component, called Funnel. The post is inspired by the rubber duck debugging method.

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Node.js

Funnel is written in TypeScript and translated to Node, although currently being migrated to Go. This post focus on Node implementation, but I might cover the rationale and migration to Go in a future post.

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Apache Kafka

The Funnel component sits between the Kafka topics and the SPA clients. It coordinates client connections and transforms a Kafka input stream into a web-socket connection (Socket.IO) adapted to each client status and preferences.

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