title: Spring Boot 2 & Spring 5 Container confusion
body: <p>I have a Spring boot 1.4.3 project. Recently I have come up with a requirement where I have to send logs from server to my web application and print the logs on the web page. I am aware of WebSockets but I was looking for better solutions and I came across, Reactive Programming and gRPC.</p>
  
  <p>Spring is supporting Reactive Programming in Spring version 5, but I am quite confused between gRPC and Reactive Programming. gRPC features Bi-Directional streaming which is built on top of Netty and provides the same facility as pushing data from the server to clients like Reactive Programming. So which one should I use, If you can clear me on this confusion it would be really great.</p>
  
  <p>Also, If I move to Spring Boot 2 which supports Spring Version 5, the project will be running on Netty. My confusion is, do I have to run my application on different containers like for normal REST endpoints on Jetty server and for Reactive API on netty server or Spring will handle this for me out of the box by handling reactive requests on netty and remaining general REST API on the jetty server, because as far as I know Netty is not a Servlet Container.</p>