Akka Cookbook
Recipes for concurrent, fast, and reactive applications
Published on 8. July 2025
414 pages
978-1-78528-836-4 (ISBN)
Description
Learn how to use the Akka framework to build effective applications in Scala
Key Features
[*] Covers a discussion on Lagom-the newest launched Akka framework that is built to create complex microservices easily
[*] The recipe approach of the book allows the reader to know important and independent concepts of Scala and Akka in a seamless manner
[*] Provides a comprehensive understanding of the Akka actor model and implementing it to create reactive web applications
Book DescriptionAkka is an open source toolkit that simplifies the construction of distributed and concurrent applications on the JVM. This book will teach you how to develop reactive applications in Scala using the Akka framework. This book will show you how to build concurrent, scalable, and reactive applications in Akka. You will see how to create high performance applications, extend applications, build microservices with Lagom, and more. We will explore Akka's actor model and show you how to incorporate concurrency into your applications. The book puts a special emphasis on performance improvement and how to make an application available for users. We also make a special mention of message routing and construction. By the end of this book, you will be able to create a high-performing Scala application using the Akka framework.What you will learn
[*] Control an actor using the ContolAware mailbox
[*] Test a fault-tolerant application using the Akka test kit
[*] Create a parallel application using futures and agents
[*] Package and deploy Akka application inside Docker
[*] Deploy remote actors programmatically on different nodes
[*] Integrate Streams with Akka actors
[*] Install Lagom and create a Lagom project
Who this book is forIf you are a Scala developer who wants to build scalable and concurrent applications, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Akka will help you take advantage of this book.
Key Features
[*] Covers a discussion on Lagom-the newest launched Akka framework that is built to create complex microservices easily
[*] The recipe approach of the book allows the reader to know important and independent concepts of Scala and Akka in a seamless manner
[*] Provides a comprehensive understanding of the Akka actor model and implementing it to create reactive web applications
Book DescriptionAkka is an open source toolkit that simplifies the construction of distributed and concurrent applications on the JVM. This book will teach you how to develop reactive applications in Scala using the Akka framework. This book will show you how to build concurrent, scalable, and reactive applications in Akka. You will see how to create high performance applications, extend applications, build microservices with Lagom, and more. We will explore Akka's actor model and show you how to incorporate concurrency into your applications. The book puts a special emphasis on performance improvement and how to make an application available for users. We also make a special mention of message routing and construction. By the end of this book, you will be able to create a high-performing Scala application using the Akka framework.What you will learn
[*] Control an actor using the ContolAware mailbox
[*] Test a fault-tolerant application using the Akka test kit
[*] Create a parallel application using futures and agents
[*] Package and deploy Akka application inside Docker
[*] Deploy remote actors programmatically on different nodes
[*] Integrate Streams with Akka actors
[*] Install Lagom and create a Lagom project
Who this book is forIf you are a Scala developer who wants to build scalable and concurrent applications, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Akka will help you take advantage of this book.
More details
Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
File size
1,84 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78528-836-4 (9781785288364)
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Héctor Veiga Ortiz | Piyush Mishra
Akka Cookbook
Book
05/2017
Packt Publishing
€64.00
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Persons
Mishra Vivek :
Vivek Mishra is an IT professional with more than nine years of experience in various technologies like Java, J2ee, Hibernate, SCA4J, Mule, Spring, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, REDIS, Hive, Hadoop. He has been a contributor for open source like Apache Cassandra and lead committer for Kundera(JPA 2.0 compliant Object-Datastore Mapping Library for NoSQL Datastores like Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB and REDIS). Mr Mishra in his previous experience has enjoyed long lasting partnership with most recognizable names in SCM, Banking and finance industries, employing industry standard full software life cycle methodologies Agile and SCRUM. He is currently employed with Impetus infotech pvt. ltd. He has undertaken speaking engagements in cloud camp and Nasscom Big data seminar and is an active blogger and can be followed at mevivs.wordpress.comVeiga Ortiz Hector :
Hector Veiga Ortiz is a software engineer specializing in real-time data integration. Recently, he has focused his work on different cloud technologies (such as AWS) to develop and run scalable, resilient, and high performing applications that are able to handle high volume, real-time data in diverse protocols and formats. To accomplish this task, he has been focusing his work on messaging systems such as Akka. He has also been working on microservice architectures with frameworks such as Lightbends Lagom. Additionally, he has a strong foundation in messaging broker knowledge, such as RabbitMQ and AMQP. Also, Hector has a masters degree in telecommunication engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and a masters degree in information technology and management from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He currently works at HERE Technologies as part of the global traffic data integrations team and is actively developing scalable applications to consume data from several different sources. He heavily utilizes Akka to address the scalability and processing requirements. In the past, Hector worked at Xaptum Technologies, a company dedicated to M2M technologies. Moreover, he has also contributed to the Akka project on a couple of occasions and is an active StackOverflow user on the akka tag. Hector has also worked as a technical reviewer on the books RabbitMQ Cookbook and RabbitMQ Essentials by Packt Publishing.
Vivek Mishra is an IT professional with more than nine years of experience in various technologies like Java, J2ee, Hibernate, SCA4J, Mule, Spring, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, REDIS, Hive, Hadoop. He has been a contributor for open source like Apache Cassandra and lead committer for Kundera(JPA 2.0 compliant Object-Datastore Mapping Library for NoSQL Datastores like Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB and REDIS). Mr Mishra in his previous experience has enjoyed long lasting partnership with most recognizable names in SCM, Banking and finance industries, employing industry standard full software life cycle methodologies Agile and SCRUM. He is currently employed with Impetus infotech pvt. ltd. He has undertaken speaking engagements in cloud camp and Nasscom Big data seminar and is an active blogger and can be followed at mevivs.wordpress.comVeiga Ortiz Hector :
Hector Veiga Ortiz is a software engineer specializing in real-time data integration. Recently, he has focused his work on different cloud technologies (such as AWS) to develop and run scalable, resilient, and high performing applications that are able to handle high volume, real-time data in diverse protocols and formats. To accomplish this task, he has been focusing his work on messaging systems such as Akka. He has also been working on microservice architectures with frameworks such as Lightbends Lagom. Additionally, he has a strong foundation in messaging broker knowledge, such as RabbitMQ and AMQP. Also, Hector has a masters degree in telecommunication engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and a masters degree in information technology and management from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He currently works at HERE Technologies as part of the global traffic data integrations team and is actively developing scalable applications to consume data from several different sources. He heavily utilizes Akka to address the scalability and processing requirements. In the past, Hector worked at Xaptum Technologies, a company dedicated to M2M technologies. Moreover, he has also contributed to the Akka project on a couple of occasions and is an active StackOverflow user on the akka tag. Hector has also worked as a technical reviewer on the books RabbitMQ Cookbook and RabbitMQ Essentials by Packt Publishing.
Content
Table of Contents
Diving into Akka
Supervision And Monitoring
Routing messages
Using Futures and Agents
Scheduling actors and other Utilities
Akka Persistance
Remoting and Akka clustering
Akka streams
Akka Http
Understaing various Akka patterns
Microservices with Lagom
Diving into Akka
Supervision And Monitoring
Routing messages
Using Futures and Agents
Scheduling actors and other Utilities
Akka Persistance
Remoting and Akka clustering
Akka streams
Akka Http
Understaing various Akka patterns
Microservices with Lagom
