In this post, we’ll look at a reactive solution for the Run Length Encoding problem, which is summarized (on Wikipedia) as:
A form of lossless data compression in which runs of data (that is, sequences in which the same data value occurs in many consecutive data elements) are stored as a single data value and count, rather than as the original run.
The challenge here is to perform it in a Reactive way using Reactor operators. Let’s jump in!
update 2018-03-13: Found a few shortcomings of the first implementation and added two new sections that present alternatives.
In this post, we’ll look at how to combine the MDC feature of current logging framework
with Reactor's own Context, in order to make contextualized logging possible within
a reactive application.