Chapter 6. Using remote actors
This chapter covers
- Structuring reactive applications with sbt
- Configuring Akka with application.conf
- Remoting with Akka
- Obtaining reliability guarantees in distributed systems
Historically, a distributed system is defined as a software system in which components that reside on networked computers work together on a common goal. This definition, albeit somewhat generalized, captures the gist, but it has led to some unfortunate side effects, such as the belief that the programming model used for a remote object can be generalized to match that of a local one. In a distributed system, remote objects require different latency metrics, memory access models, concurrency constructs, and failure handling. The local ...
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