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Mastering Akka
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Mastering Akka

by Christian Baxter
October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
436 pages
11h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 2. Simplifying Concurrent Programming with Actors

Before we get started on our refactoring journey (which I promise will start in earnest in Chapter 3, Curing Anemic Models with Domain-Driven Design), it makes sense to refresh ourselves on the actor model and Akka's implementation of it. We will tear down the walls and reframe our house with new programming techniques, but Akka's actors will always be the foundation to that house. Even though some of the newer aspects of Akka (such as Streams and HTTP) abstract up one level from directly using actors, the actor is still a core building block of those frameworks. As such, we should have a solid understanding of what an actor is and how they fit into the world of concurrent programming. ...

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ISBN: 9781786465023