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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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Héctor Veiga Ortiz Héctor Veiga Ortiz
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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

Introduction

Architectures based on microservices are becoming more popular than classical monolithic ones. Traditional monolithic architectures have been popular for decades. Although this paradigm has worked well for many years, they cause problems that are hard to solve, such as scalability and maintainability. These problems became exponentially harder in the modern Internet, where millions of people or devices need to use remote services.

Large companies, such as Google, Netflix, Amazon, or Nike, have spent years transforming their architectures into a new architectural paradigm that brings advantages such as scalability and separation of concerns. In general terms, a microservice is a service that is responsible only for one task. Each microservice is supposed to have an isolated data store (or even no data store), and the data in the data store can only be...

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