Akka in Action

Akka in Action is, a comprehensive tutorial on building message-oriented systems using Akka. The book takes a hands-on approach, where each new concept is, followed by an example that shows you how it works, how to implement the code, and how to (unit) test it.

About the Technology

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.

What's Inside
• Getting concurrency right
• Testing and performance tuning
• Clustered and cloud-based applications
• Covers Akka version 2.4

Table of Contents
• Introducing Akka
• Up and running
• Test-driven development with actors
• Fault tolerance
• Futures
• Your first distributed Akka app
• Configuration, logging, and deployment
• Structural patterns for actors
• Routing messages
• Message channels
• Finite-state machines and agents
• System integration
• Streaming
• Clustering
• Actor persistence
• Performance tips
• Looking ahead