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Mastering Akka

Mastering Akka

By : Baxter
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Mastering Akka

Mastering Akka

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By: Baxter

Overview of this book

For a programmer, writing multi-threaded applications is critical as it is important to break large tasks into smaller ones and run them simultaneously. Akka is a distributed computing toolkit that uses the abstraction of the Actor model, enabling developers to build correct, concurrent, and distributed applications using Java and Scala with ease. The book begins with a quick introduction that simplifies concurrent programming with actors. We then proceed to master all aspects of domain-driven design. We’ll teach you how to scale out with Akka Remoting/Clustering. Finally, we introduce Conductr as a means to deploy to and manage microservices across a cluster.
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Chapter 2. Simplifying Concurrent Programming with Actors

Before we get started on our refactoring journey (which I promise will start in earnest in Chapter 3, Curing Anemic Models with Domain-Driven Design), it makes sense to refresh ourselves on the actor model and Akka's implementation of it. We will tear down the walls and reframe our house with new programming techniques, but Akka's actors will always be the foundation to that house. Even though some of the newer aspects of Akka (such as Streams and HTTP) abstract up one level from directly using actors, the actor is still a core building block of those frameworks. As such, we should have a solid understanding of what an actor is and how they fit into the world of concurrent programming. We'll even do a little bit of refactoring work in this chapter as we have some bad actor debt (the SalesOrderManager) to clean up first. Here are the things you can expect to learn in this chapter:

  • The origins of the actor model...
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