Akka in Action, Second Edition

front matter

preface

I joined Lightbend a little more than four years ago, and soon I began to visit customers and train them to build reactive architectures. I heard the same questions over and over again, and in trying to explain the principles, I learned much of what this book is about. But I wouldn’t have written the book if it weren’t for my friend Raymond Roestenburg.

The opportunity to write this edition of this book came to me by accident. I was working with Ray, and one day, he told me that he had written the previous edition. It was a bit outdated by then, and he thought it would make sense to have the next edition deal with the conversion from Akka Classic to Akka Typed. Writing a book is a lot of work, and he didn’t have the time. ...