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What is Spring WebFlux?

Tarun Telang
3 min readMar 20, 2023

Imagine a world where your web applications can seamlessly handle thousands of concurrent users without breaking a sweat. A world where your servers are no longer bogged down by blocking operations, and your apps deliver lightning-fast experiences in real-time.

Sounds like a dream, right?

Well, this dream is now a reality with Spring WebFlux. 🌍💡✨

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What is Spring WebFlux? ⚙️🔄🚀

Spring WebFlux isn’t just another web framework — it’s a paradigm shift. Introduced in Spring Framework 5, WebFlux is designed to build non-blocking, asynchronous, and event-driven web applications.

Built on top of the Reactive Streams specification, it brings the power of reactive programming to the Spring ecosystem, enabling developers to create highly scalable and performant applications. 📈🔥💻

Why Spring WebFlux ?🚀⚡💡

At its core, Spring WebFlux is all about efficiency. Traditional web frameworks often rely on blocking I/O operations, leading to thread exhaustion and poor performance under heavy loads. WebFlux flips the script by embracing a reactive programming model. This means it can handle a massive number of concurrent requests using just a handful of threads, thanks to its non-blocking architecture. 🛠️🔄🚀

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Tarun Telang
Tarun Telang

Written by Tarun Telang

Prolific Author, Engineering Leader, Software Architect

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