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Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model: Applications and Integration in Scala and Akka
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Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model: Applications and Integration in Scala and Akka

by Vaughn Vernon
August 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
368 pages
14h 31m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 4. Messaging with Actors

The patterns in this chapter provide you with a basic understanding of messaging with the Actor model and Akka. You gain not only a foundational vocabulary but also primary knowledge of how to design parts of a single actor system and how they can be integrated.

Image Message Channel: This is the means by which a message producer and a message consumer communicate, but both the producer and consumer remain decoupled from one another. Using the Actor model, logically speaking a Message Channel (128) is the actor’s mailbox, a first-in, first-out (FIFO) queue for all incoming messages.

Message: A fundamental building block ...

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