Reactive Programming in Node

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Defines RxJS observables as lazy push streams, demonstrates creation, interval/take, merge vs concat and node-specific fromEvent/denodeify operators, and shows Netflix moving to reactive nested conditional and parallel execution to cut client requests. Describes a RabbitMQ-backed metadata pipeline that maps naturally to streams, claims easier concurrency, cancelable subscriptions, and simpler error paths, and notes surprising costs: steep learning curve, breaking RxJS API changes, and cases where single-event overhead makes observables overkill.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 7:14Observer Pattern
3. 8:21Marble Diagrams
4. 10:21JavaScript RP Libraries
5. 13:53Operators

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