February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
13h 46m
English
It is very important to understand why we need a separate component—ActorMaterializer in Akka Toolkit. Why can't we use Akka's Actor to fulfill the Streaming Data purpose?

If we use Akka Actors to implement Graphs for streaming data, we need to write lots of boilerplate code to process the data and send it to the next stage. I'm not saying it's impossible; we can implement it. However, we need to write lots of boilerplate code and it is a very tedious approach.
If we use Akka Streams to implement Graphs for streaming data, we are just responsible for designing Graphs, and that's it. Akka ...
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