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Software design pattern for concurrent event handling

The reactor software design pattern is an event handling strategy that can respond to many potential service requests concurrently. The pattern's key component is an event loop, running in a single thread or process, which demultiplexes incoming requests and dispatches them to the correct request handler. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Reactor patternA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Gas-liquid flow pattern identification and bubble characteristics analysis in a static mixer based HiPOxTM reactorInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Network and Parallel ComputingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Characterization of the flow pattern in a downer reactorCited 52 times
  5. Go sideways: Non-blocking I/O (Java)A closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Event-driven programmingA closely related topic

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