Reactor Pattern - CI/CD Glossary Definition
The reactor pattern structures an event-driven system around a demultiplexer (epoll, kqueue) that waits on many I/O sources and dispatches each ready event to its handler; it lets one thread service thousands of connections without blocking per request.
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