VietMX Staff asked 3 years ago
The Oxford Dictionary defines asynchronous as “not existing or occurring at the same time”. In the context of Reactive Sysytems, it means that the processing of a request occurs at an arbitrary point in time, sometime after it has been transmitted from client to service. The client cannot directly observe, or synchronize with, the execution that occurs within the service. This is the antonym of synchronous processing which implies that the client only resumes its own execution once the service has processed the request.
