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Akka Essentials

By : Munish K. Gupta
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Akka Essentials

By: Munish K. Gupta

Overview of this book

<p>Developers/Architects need to manage the fine balance between the ever increasing load and ever decreasing response latency. Applications need to be designed for Internet scale, which means you need to be skilled in building large distributed, scalable, and concurrent applications. Whether you are building the next Facebook or working for a Fortune 500 organization, you need to be ready to design scalable, concurrent, and fault-tolerant applications. Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant event-driven applications on the JVM.<br /><br />"Akka Essentials" will show you the current challenges with Java Scalability and concurrency model and how Akka&rsquo;s Actor Model can help you design and build applications that are inherently scalable and fault-tolerant. Whether you are building new applications or want to refactor an existing application, you will learn the right techniques to build and scale up in no time.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Akka Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Akka
Index

Summary


This completes the introduction to Akka, where we saw the evolution of the microprocessors, the problems with writing/using the Java concurrency models for distributed applications, and how Akka's Actor Model provides an answer to the two problems. We also learned the key constructs that define the Akka framework and sample use cases where Akka is a prime candidate for use.

In the next chapter, we will get started with Akka, we will go through the motions of installing the development environment and write our first Akka application.