Akka in Action (Repost)

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

- Getting concurrency right
- Testing and performance tuning
- Clustered and cloud-based applications
- 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