Spring WebFlux
Spring WebFlux is a reactive web framework introduced as part of Spring Framework 5.0, designed for building highly scalable and resilient non-blocking web applications and microservices. It leverages Project Reactor to implement the Reactive Streams specification, enabling efficient handling of…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2017
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Spring WebFlux was created to address the limitations of traditional servlet-based, blocking I/O models in handling high concurrency and achieving optimal resource utilization, particularly in modern microservices and cloud-native architectures. It solves the challenge of building scalable and resilient systems that can efficiently manage thousands of concurrent connections and I/O-bound operations.
- Platforms
- JVM (Java Virtual Machine)
Related technologies
Notable users
- Financial institutions for high-throughput trading systems
- Many enterprises adopting microservices and cloud-native patterns
- Telecom companies for highly concurrent services
- VMware Tanzu (internal use and examples)