Akka Cookbook

Key Features

• Covers a discussion on Lagom—the newest launched Akka framework that is built to create complex microservices easily
• The recipe approach of the book allows the reader to know important and independent concepts of Scala and Akka in a seamless manner
• Provides a comprehensive understanding of the Akka actor model and implementing it to create reactive web applications

Book Description

Akka is an open source toolkit that simplifies the construction of distributed and concurrent applications on the JVM. This book will teach you how to develop reactive applications in Scala using the Akka framework.

This book will show you how to build concurrent, scalable, and reactive applications in Akka. You will see how to create high performance applications, extend applications, build microservices with Lagom, and more.

We will explore Akka’s actor model and show you how to incorporate concurrency into your applications. The book puts a special emphasis on performance improvement and how to make an application available for users. We also make a special mention of message routing and construction.

By the end of this book, you will be able to create a high-performing Scala application using the Akka framework.

What you will learn

• Control an actor using the ContolAware mailbox
• Test a fault-tolerant application using the Akka test kit
• Create a parallel application using futures and agents
• Package and deploy Akka application inside Docker
• Deploy remote actors programmatically on different nodes
• Integrate Streams with Akka actors
• Install Lagom and create a Lagom project

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Diving Into Akka
Chapter 2. Supervision And Monitoring
Chapter 3. Routing Messages
Chapter 4. Using Futures And Agents
Chapter 5. Scheduling Actors And Other Utilities
Chapter 6. Akka Persistence
Chapter 7. Remoting And Akka Clustering
Chapter 8. Akka Streams
Chapter 9. Akka Http
Chapter 10. Understanding Various Akka Patterns
Chapter 11. Microservices With Lagom