Book description
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.
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'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
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.
Quotes
The most readable and up-to-date treatment of Akka I have seen.
- Kevin Esler, TimeTrade Systems
A great way to get started and go beyond the basics with Akka.
- Andy Hicks, London Scala Users Group
A user’s guide to Akka in the real world!
- William E. Wheeler, TEKsystems
A really useful book. Every chapter has working, real-world code that illustrates how to get things done using Akka.
- Iain Starks, Game Account Network
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- Chapter 1. Introducing Akka
- Chapter 2. Up and running
- Chapter 3. Test-driven development with actors
- Chapter 4. Fault tolerance
- Chapter 5. Futures
- Chapter 6. Your first distributed Akka app
- Chapter 7. Configuration, logging, and deployment
- Chapter 8. Structural patterns for actors
- Chapter 9. Routing messages
- Chapter 10. Message channels
- Chapter 11. Finite-state machines and agents
- Chapter 12. System integration
- Chapter 13. Streaming
- Chapter 14. Clustering
- Chapter 15. Actor persistence
- Chapter 16. Performance tips
- Chapter 17. Looking ahead
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
Product information
- Title: Akka in Action
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2016
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781617291012
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