Scala Reactive Programming

Benefits of Akka (or why do we need Akka?)

As the Akka Toolkit has the following benefits, it's good to use Akka to develop your Reaction Applications/Systems:

• It is open source
• By design, it is distributed, and it's very easy to use distributed applications
• It supports clustering
• It supports Reactive Streams using the Akka Streams module
• It is easy to develop highly performant, highly scalable, highly maintainable, and highly available applications using Akka
• It supports concurrency using the Actor Model. Unlike Java's Shared-State Model (which is low-level API), the Actor-based Concurrency Model is a high-level API to write Concurrency and Parallelism programming without threads, locking, and other issues.
• It supports scalability in both ...