Summary
Akka in Action is a comprehensive tutorial on building
message-oriented systems using Akka. The book takes a hands-on approach,
where each new concept is followed by an example that shows you how it
works, how to implement the code, and how to (unit) test it.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and
ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
Akka makes it relatively easy to build applications in the cloud or on
devices with many cores that efficiently use the full capacity of the
computing power available. It's a toolkit that provides an actor
programming model, a runtime, and required support tools for building
scalable applications.
About the Book
Akka in Action shows you how to build message-oriented systems with
Akka. This comprehensive, hands-on tutorial introduces each concept with
a working example. You'll start with the big picture of how Akka works,
and then quickly build and deploy a fully functional REST service out of
actors. You'll explore test-driven development and deploying and scaling
fault-tolerant systems. After mastering the basics, you'll discover how
to model immutable messages, implement domain models, and apply
techniques like event sourcing and CQRS. You'l also find a tutorial on
building streaming applications using akka-stream and akka-http.
Finally, you'l get practical advice on how to customize and extend your
Akka system.
What's Inside
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Getting concurrency right
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Testing and performance tuning
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Clustered and cloud-based applications
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Covers Akka version 2.4
About the Reader
This book assumes that you're comfortable with Java and Scala. No prior
experience with Akka required.
About the Authors
A software craftsman and architect, Raymond Roestenburg is an Akka
committer. Rob Bakker specializes in concurrent back-end systems and
systems integration. Rob Williams has more than 20 years of product
development experience.
Table of Contents
- Introducing Akka
- Up and running
- Test-driven development with actors
- Fault tolerance
- Futures
- Your first distributed Akka app
- Configuration, logging, and deployment
- Structural patterns for actors
- Routing messages
- Message channels
- Finite-state machines and agents
- System integration
- Streaming
- Clustering
- Actor persistence
- Performance tips
- Looking ahead
