(Ebook) Akka in Action by Raymond Roestenburg, Rob Bakker, Rob Williams ISBN 9781617291012, 1617291013

(Ebook) Akka in Action by Raymond Roestenburg, Rob Bakker, Rob Williams ISBN 9781617291012, 1617291013

SummaryAkka 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.Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.About the TechnologyAkka 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 BookAkka 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'l also find a tutorial on building streaming applications using akka-stream and akka-http. Finally, you'l get practical advice on how to customize and extend your Akka system.What's Inside Getting concurrency rightTesting and performance tuningClustered and cloud-based applicationsCovers Akka version 2.4 About the ReaderThis book assumes that you're comfortable with Java and Scala. No prior experience with Akka required.About the AuthorsA 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.Table of Contents Introducing AkkaUp and runningTest-driven development with actorsFault toleranceFuturesYour first distributed Akka appConfiguration, logging, and deploymentStructural patterns for actorsRouting messagesMessage channelsFinite-state machines and agentsSystem integrationStreamingClusteringActor persistencePerformance tipsLooking ahead