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Akka Cookbook

You're reading from   Akka Cookbook Recipes for concurrent, fast, and reactive applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785288180
Length 414 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vivek Mishra Vivek Mishra
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Piyush Mishra Piyush Mishra
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Diving into Akka FREE CHAPTER 2. Supervision and Monitoring 3. Routing Messages 4. Using Futures and Agents 5. Scheduling Actors and Other Utilities 6. Akka Persistence 7. Remoting and Akka Clustering 8. Akka Streams 9. Akka HTTP 10. Understanding Various Akka patterns 11. Microservices with Lagom

Enabling Akka clustering for your project


We know how to interact with remote actors--create them, look them up, and send messages. However, Akka remoting requires you to know the actual addresses of actors in order to connect to them. Akka clustering is a layer on top of Akka remoting that helps you manage remote actors to provide a decentralized fault-tolerant service.

Akka clustering brings in a few new concepts:

  • Node: This is a logical member of a cluster. It is defined by a hostname:port:uid tuple.
  • Cluster: This is a set of nodes joined together through a membership service. Akka clustering utilizes the Gossip protocol to maintain a decentralized registry of nodes in a cluster.
  • Leader: A single node in the cluster acts as a leader. The leader manages the convergence and membership state transitions.
  • Seed nodes: These are a set of nodes that are used by other nodes to join the cluster.
  • Failure detector: This is responsible for trying to detect whether a node is unreachable from the rest of...
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