3 pictures tell you about "what is Reactive Lambda Architecture"

Draft of design "Reactive Lambda Architecture"

It’s the philosophy and pattern for designing a large application at Internet-scaled.

This architecture allows developers to build systems that are:

(event-driven + scalable + resilient + responsive)

delivering highly responsive user experiences with a real-time feel, backed by a scalable and resilient application stack, ready to be deployed on multicore and cloud computing architectures.

Source: http://www.reactivemanifesto.org

Early adopters:

• Microsoft Research : https://rx.codeplex.com
• Adopted by by Netflix for building scalable backend system API

http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/02/rxjava-netflix-api.html

http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/01/optimizing-netflix-api.html

For big data http://www.javaadvent.com/2013/12/big-data-reactive-way.html