Beyond This Book
This section will help you get a better overview of the Scala ecosystem and help guide your self-study after the book has ended, so you can continue to improve your Scala skills.
Various Scala Libraries
The purpose of this topic is to briefly introduce a couple of different Scala libraries for solving problems in different domains so that you can study the ones that are interesting to you after the book.
Akka
The first library we'll look at is one of the most popular libraries in the Scala ecosystem. It has been around for a long time—the first public release of the library was in 2010—and it's used in production by a large number of big organizations.
Its main abstractions are
Actor and
Streams:
Actorsare a way to model concurrency ...
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