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Akka in Action video edition
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Akka in Action video edition

by Raymond Roestenburg, Rob Bakker, Rob Williams
September 2016
12h 21m
English
Manning Publications

Overview

In Video Editions the narrator reads the book while the content, figures, code listings, diagrams, and text appear on the screen. Like an audiobook that you can also watch as a video.

"The most readable and up-to-date treatment of Akka I have seen."
Kevin Esler, TimeTrade Systems

Akka in Action shows you how to build message-oriented systems with Akka. This comprehensive, hands-on tutorial introduces each concept with a working example. You'll start with the big picture of how Akka works, and then quickly build and deploy a fully functional REST service out of actors. You'll explore test-driven development and deploying and scaling fault-tolerant systems. After mastering the basics, you'll discover how to model immutable messages, implement domain models, and apply techniques like event sourcing and CQRS. You'll also find a tutorial on building streaming applications using akka-stream and akka-http. Finally, you'll get practical advice on how to customize and extend your Akka system.

Akka makes it relatively easy to build applications in the cloud or on devices with many cores that efficiently use the full capacity of the computing power available. It's a toolkit that provides an actor programming model, a runtime, and required support tools for building scalable applications.

Inside:
  • Getting concurrency right
  • Testing and performance tuning
  • Clustered and cloud-based applications
  • Covers Akka version 2.4
This book/course assumes that you're comfortable with Java and Scala. No prior experience with Akka required.

A software craftsman and architect, Raymond Roestenburg is an Akka committer. Rob Bakker specializes in concurrent back-end systems and systems integration. Rob Williams has more than 20 years of product development experience.

A great way to get started and go beyond the basics with Akka.
Andy Hicks, London Scala Users Group

A user’s guide to Akka in the real world!
William E. Wheeler, TEKsystems

A really useful book. Every chapter has working, real-world code that illustrates how to get things done using Akka.
Iain Starks, Game Account Network

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Publisher Resources

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