Modern software architectures are amidst a paradigm shift — more and more software landscapes are built upon asynchronous and reactive patterns. This movement is understandable, as it takes scalability, resilience, and real-time integration to an elusive new level.

In this talk, we will focus on the reactive paradigm's central concepts, core ideas, and the corresponding manifest and make them understandable. Based on this knowledge, we will go into detail by mapping it to concrete patterns, like event-centric persistence, the concept of hydrations or projections, and the shift of creating systems in a fully push-based design from end2end.

Upon a closer look at the advantages and challenges we've experienced in customer projects, it turns out that reactive architecture is not a silver bullet either. Rather, they are suited for a specific set of problems but can be a game-changing tool to build cloud-native, highly responsive, and resilient applications.