Reactive Systems and How They Fulfil the Distributed Systems Design Goals On 16th of September 2013 the Reactive Manifesto 1 0 was published Since then it was slightly modified and evolved to the version 2 0 reference It declares the principles of building Reactive Systems and their characteristics These systems are message driven resilient elastic and therefore responsive They consist of independent and isolated components which asynchronously exchange messages The components can generate new messages send the messages to themselves or to the other components In this essay I would like to consider reactive systems their characteristics and assess how well they suit for distributed systems development To make the assessment I compare reactive system characteristics with distributed systems design goals The ideas that formed the basis of the Reactive Manifesto are not new The works with similar thoughts appeared in the 1970s they described the Actor Model
