Preface
The Akka library is well known in the Scala world for providing a means to build reactive applications. Akka’s core building block is the Actor, which is a simple concurrency unit that allows you to build asynchronous, event driven, fault tolerant, and potentially distributed components on top of. Actors are an excellent starting point to build your reactive applications and services on top of, but there’s a lot more within the entire Akka platform that you should be considering as well.
This book will provide the reader with a purpose-built tour through some of the additional modules within the Akka platform. The tour will be conducted by progressively refactoring an initial Akka application from an inflexible monolith all the way to a ...
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