Effective Akka: Patterns and Best Practices - Softcover

Allen, Jamie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1449360076 ISBN 13: 9781449360078

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2013

Synopsis

Avoid common mistakes when building distributed, asynchronous, high-performance software with the Akka toolkit and runtime. With this concise guide, author Jamie Allen provides a collection of best practices based on several years of using the actor model. The book also includes examples of actor application types and two primary patterns of actor usage, the Extra Pattern and Cameo Pattern.

Allen, the Director of Consulting for Typesafe—creator of Akka and the Scala programming language—examines actors with a banking-service use case throughout the book, using examples shown in Akka and Scala. If you have any experience with Akka, this guide is essential.

• Delve into domain-driven and work-distribution actor applications
• Understand why it’s important to have actors do only one job
• Avoid thread blocking by allowing logic to be delegated to a Future
• Model interactions as simply as possible to avoid premature optimization
• Create well-defined interactions, and know exactly what failures can occur
• Learn why you should never treat actors as you would an ordinary class
• Keep track of what goes on in production by monitoring everything
• Tune Akka applications with the Typesafe Console

About this title

Book Description:

Patterns and Best Practices

About the Author:

Jamie Allen is the Director of Consulting for Typesafe, the company that makes the Scala programming language, the Akka toolkit and Play Framework. Jamie has been building actor-based systems with Scala since 2009. Jamie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Yeon, and three children.

About this edition

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1449360076
• ISBN 13: 9781449360078
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 74