In late 2013, a band of genius engineers from Lightbend, Netflix, and Pivotal gathered to solve the described problem and provide the JVM community with a standard. After a long year of hard work, the world saw the first draft of the Reactive Streams specification. There was nothing extraordinary behind this proposal—the conceptual idea was in the standardization of the familiar reactive programming patterns that we saw in the previous chapter. In the following section, we are going to cover this in detail.