Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to weave actors together to tackle a difficult concurrent problem. More importantly, we saw how Akka's actor framework encourages us to think about concurrent problems in terms of many separate chunks of encapsulated mutable data, synchronized through message passing. Akka makes concurrent programming easier to reason about and more fun.

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