February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
13h 46m
English
In Akka Streams, we (as developers) are responsible for designing Graphs (or RunnableGraphs) to fulfill our requirements. So, who is responsible for running or executing those Graphs? The answer is Akka ActorMaterializer.
ActorMaterializer is useful for running or executing our Graphs or RunnableGraphs and gives us a value. This value is also known as materialized value.
The Akka Streams API has akka.stream.ActorMaterializer to support this feature.
In simple words, ActorMaterializer is a Akka Streams running tool or Akka Stream's Data Flow Graphs running tool:

As shown in the preceding diagram, developers are responsible ...
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