Akka in Action

Use Akka to solve the big problems of distributed systems—from multithreading and concurrency, to handling scalability and failure.

In  Akka in Action, Second Edition you will learn how to:

• Create basic programs with Akka
• Work with clusters to build robust, fault tolerant programs
• Create and maintain distributed state with strong consistency guarantees
• Build microservices with Akka
• Utilize concurrency and parallelism
• Test Akka software

Akka in Action, Second Edition teaches you to use the latest version of Akka to solve common problems of distributed systems. Akka contributor Francisco López-Sancho demonstrates Akka's complex concepts through real-world use cases, including clustering, sharding, persistence, and deploying to Kubernetes. Discover the power of the Actor model, and how to leverage most of the Akka modules to create microservices that are reliable and fault tolerant.