Akka Streams implements the Reactive Streams standard within the larger Akka concurrency project.
Akka Streams is built on the philosophy of providing a minimal and consistent Application programming interface (API) that is extremely compositional, meaning it is broken into pieces that can be combined in many ways.
Unlike RxJava and Reactor, the topology of streams (flows) in Akka Streams is immutable once they have been materialized. This means that you must be explicit to convert a flow into a Reactive Streams interface to have a dynamic topology (as we’ll cover later on).
Although most familiar ...
