Flow-Based Programming
Flow-Based Programming (FBP) is a programming paradigm that models applications as networks of independent processes communicating via data packets through predefined connections. It emphasizes data flow, component reusability, and asynchronous processing, treating software as a graph of black-box components. This approach decouples control flow from data flow, making systems more modular, scalable, and easier to debug.
Developers should learn FBP when building data-intensive, event-driven, or real-time systems such as ETL pipelines, IoT applications, or financial trading platforms, as it excels at handling streaming data and parallel processing. It's particularly useful for scenarios requiring high modularity, where components can be reused across different workflows, and for improving system maintainability by isolating business logic into discrete, testable units.