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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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Using Akka actors for safe concurrency

In the previous section, we talked about writing concurrent code in the JVM and how it can be both error prone and also inefficient due to the overhead of obtaining instance locks. Since multi-threaded apps and multi-core machines are a way of life, we can't really ignore concurrency in the apps that we write on the JVM. Thankfully, Akka actors take the pain out of writing concurrency-aware components. In fact, it's so simple and consistent that I often forget how complicated the underlying concept used to be without Akka.

A lot of that simplicity stems from the way actor components communicate with each other via message passing. If component A (an actor) needs to use some functionality represented by component B (another actor), then component A will send component B a message, and if necessary, asynchronously react to a response that B can route back to it.

This model of message passing is different than life in the synchronous world. In...

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