Scala Reactive Programming

Goals of the Akka Streams API

Akka Streams API has designed and developed with the following main goals in mind to ease the Streaming data easier and faster:

• To support asynchronous streaming data with non-blocking backpressure
• To support better performance
• To support reactiveness by implementing Reactive Streams specification
• To support distributed feature using Akka Toolkit and its Actor Model

Some APIs, tools, or frameworks support backpressure. However, they support using synchronous blocking backpressure. It solves some of the streaming data problems; however, it is not the right solution.

Internally, the Akka Streams API uses some of the Akka Toolkit components and also Akka Actor Model to ease and fulfill its job:

Apart from Reactive ...