Akka in Action

English | 2016 | ISBN: 978-1-61729-101-2 | 448 Pages | PDF, EPUB, MOBI | 13 MB

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.
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’ll also find a tutorial on building streaming applications using akka-stream and akka-http. Finally, you’ll get practical advice on how to customize and extend your Akka system.
What’s inside

• Getting concurrency right
• Testing and performance tuning
• Clustered and cloud-based applications
• Covers Akka version 2.4

This book assumes that you’re comfortable with Java and Scala. No prior experience with Akka required.