Ben J. Christensen

Projects and work that has public information and/or artifacts available.

RSocket (previously ReactiveSocket)

RSocket is an application protocol providing Reactive Stream semantics over an asynchronous, binary boundary.

Projects: https://github.com/RSocket
Site: http://rsocket.io
Protocol
Motivations for creating a new protocol.

RxJava

Reactive Extensions for the JVM – a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM.

Code: https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava
Site: http://reactivex.io
Reference in ThoughtWorks Tech Radar
Applying RxJava to Existing Applications at Philly ETE 2015 – Slides | Video
Reactive Programming with Rx at QConSF 2014 – Slides | Video
RxJava at GOTO Aarhus 2013 – Slides | Video
Netflix Tech Blog: Reactive Programming in the Netflix API with RxJava

Reactive Streams

Reactive Streams is an initiative to provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking back pressure.

Hystrix & Fault Tolerance

Hystrix is a latency and fault tolerance library designed to isolate points of access to remote systems, services and 3rd party libraries, stop cascading failure and enable resilience in complex distributed systems where failure is inevitable.

Code: https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix
Site: Hystrix Wiki
Reference in ThoughtWorks Tech Radar
Resilient by Design at React SF 2014 – Slides | Video
Reactive Service Levels at React London 2014 – Slides | Video
O'Reilly Radar Blog: Application Resilience in a Service-Oriented Architecture using Hystrix
Netflix Tech Blog: Fault Tolerance in a High Volume, Distributed System

Netflix API/Edge Platform

Involved to varying degrees in the following:

Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems (see section on Hystrix above)
Adoption of Reactive Programming (see section on RxJava above)
Migration from One-Size-Fits-All REST to "experience oriented APIs"
Routing with Application Logic - Zuul
Predictive Autoscaling - Scryer
Async IO - RxNetty
Performance Analysis of Async IO - WSPerfLab and Results of Netty vs Tomcat (April 2015)
Event Stream Processing and Operational Tooling