About this book

This book is intended to introduce experienced developers to reactive applications using the actor model. Readers should be familiar with traditional model-view-controller (MVC) design and have some understanding of its strengths as well its weaknesses. Ideally, readers have seen what happens as traditional MVC design is stretched to its performance and reliability limits and begins to fail.

Who should read this book

If you’ve come to realize that building a distributed system that runs reliably in the real world is vastly more difficult than drawing one on a whiteboard, Reactive Application Development is for you. Reactive applications use actors to scale smoothly and handle failure gracefully. Read this book to get started ...

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