Netflix/Hystrix — pull request #218 by benjchristensen (2014-03-11 05:00:16+00:00)
Title: Hystrix 1.4 - Async/Non-Blocking

This adds support for async/non-blocking sources via the new `HystrixObservableCommand`. It also changes `HystrixCommand` to use `HystrixObservableCommand` so all functionality goes through the same code path.

This achieves the "Asynchronous Executables" feature in https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix/issues/11

Further information and documentation will be written for the release notes.

This code has been running on a single instance in production for a few days at Netflix so appears good enough to release as beta or release candidate. The intent is to allow a week or two of production testing at Netflix before providing an official 1.4.0 release.