February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
13h 46m
English
The Akka Toolkit has an ActorMaterializer component that is mainly useful in the Akka Streams module.
In the Akka Streams module, we design our flow execution in high level using Stream API components. That's it. Then who is responsible for creating the required Actors internally and executing that flow? It is ActorMaterializer.
Materialization means providing an implementation for the given data flow design.
ActorMaterializer is responsible for providing materialization to the Akka Toolkit. It will create all the required Actors under the hood and take care of executing the data streams with defined functionality. It needs the ActorSystem to create and manage those Actors.
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