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Scala Reactive Programming

By : Rambabu Posa
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Scala Reactive Programming

By: Rambabu Posa

Overview of this book

Reactive programming is a scalable, fast way to build applications, and one that helps us write code that is concise, clear, and readable. It can be used for many purposes such as GUIs, robotics, music, and others, and is central to many concurrent systems. This book will be your guide to getting started with Reactive programming in Scala. You will begin with the fundamental concepts of Reactive programming and gradually move on to working with asynchronous data streams. You will then start building an application using Akka Actors and extend it using the Play framework. You will also learn about reactive stream specifications, event sourcing techniques, and different methods to integrate Akka Streams into the Play Framework. This book will also take you one step forward by showing you the advantages of the Lagom framework while working with reactive microservices. You will also learn to scale applications using multi-node clusters and test, secure, and deploy your microservices to the cloud. By the end of the book, you will have gained the knowledge to build robust and distributed systems with Scala and Akka.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

The CQRS pattern

CQRS stands for Command Query Responsibility Segregation. CQRS is an architectural pattern created by Greg Young, based on Bertrand Meyer's Command and Query Separation principle.

Greg Young, the father of CQRS, coined this term. The CQRS pattern was inspired by the Command Query Separation (CQS) technique.

Wikipedia defines this CQS as follows:

It states that every method should either be a command that performs an action, or a query that returns data to the caller, but not both. In other words, asking a question should not change the answer. More formally, methods should return a value only if they are referentially transparent and hence possess no side effects.

We know that every system or application has two kinds of operation:

  • Write operation (CREATE, UPDATE, and DELETE)
  • Read operation (READ)

If we don't follow the CQRS pattern, I mean using old...