Akka Cookbook

by Hector Veiga Ortiz

Learn how to use the Akka framework to build effective applications in Scala About This Book - Covers a discussion on Lagom-the newest launched Akka framework that is built to create complex microservices easily - The recipe approach of the book allows the reader to know important and independent concepts of Scala and Akka in a seamless manner - Provides a comprehensive understanding of the Akka actor model and implementing it to create reactive web applications Who This Book Is For If you are a Scala developer who wants to build scalable and concurrent applications, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Akka will help you take advantage of this book. What You Will Learn - Control an actor using the ContolAware mailbox - Test a fault-tolerant application using the Akka test kit - Create a parallel application using futures and agents - Package and deploy Akka application inside Docker - Deploy remote actors programmatically on different nodes - Integrate Streams with Akka actors - Install Lagom and create a Lagom project In Detail Akka is an open source toolkit that simplifies the construction of distributed and concurrent applications on the JVM. This book will teach you how to develop reactive applications in Scala using the Akka framework. This book will show you how to build concurrent, scalable, and reactive applications in Akka. You will see how to create high performance applications, extend applications, build microservices with Lagom, and more. We will explore Akka's actor model and show you how to incorporate concurrency into your applications. The book puts a special emphasis on performance improvement and how to make an application available for users. We also make a special mention of message routing and construction. By the end of this book, you will be able to create a high-performing Scala application using the Akka framework. Style and approach This highly practical recipe-based approach will allow you to build scalable, robust, and reactive applications using the Akka framework.

414 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 26, 2017

Reviews

[Cathal Aherne · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a great way to start working with Akka. I only utilised the Akka-Http chapter but
of all the resources available for Akka-http, this was the most straight forward. The examples use curl to query the server which is also useful.

[Magesh Somasundaram · Rating 2 out of 5]

Perfect for beginners, some programming exercises are not running have to tweak a little to make it compile and run when you go along with the code from the book. There is not much information on why we need AKKA what problems does it solve. This is my suggestion towards and i expected it.