Curing Your Event Processing Blues with Rx

Explore the power of Reactive Extensions (Rx) in taming asynchronous programming challenges in this 38-minute conference talk from Strange Loop 2013. Learn how Rx can transform complex, callback-heavy code into manageable observable sequences, making it easier to develop and maintain highly connected applications. Discover how to apply standard query operators and temporal operations to these sequences, effectively abstracting away the notion of time in asynchronous programming. Gain insights into both JavaScript and .NET versions of Rx, as well as related projects like Rx.rb and RxCpp. Presented by Donna Malayeri and Matthew Podwysocki from Microsoft, this talk offers practical solutions for handling event processing in modern, interconnected applications, potentially safeguarding your web services against performance issues caused by high popularity.