The Reactive Merge operator came up recently in our office during a discussion about chickens. Photo credit: Eight-Bot engineer Jeff Fichtner Let's say you construct a Rube Goldberg / Wallace and Gromit style machine to turn eggs into pancakes. Like any good machine, it's a time saver because it performs a repetitive activity the same way every time. That frees up our human time so we can do more interesting things, like watch movies or play video games. How does the machine