Summary 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.