Mastering Play Framework for Scala

Introducing Akka Actors

Akka is a part of the Typesafe Reactive Platform, which is similar to the Play Framework. According to their website:

Akka is a toolkit and runtime used to build highly concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant event-driven applications on the JVM.

Akka implements a version of the Actor Model, which is commonly called Akka Actors and is available for both Java and Scala. According to the Akka documentation, Actors give you:

• Simple and high-level abstractions for concurrency and parallelism
• Asynchronous, nonblocking, and highly performant event-driven programming model
• Very lightweight event-driven processes (several million actors per GB of heap memory)

Akka Actors are available as a library and can be used within a project ...