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Akka Cookbook

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

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785288180

Length 414 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Scala

Tools

Akka

Concepts

Concurrency

Authors (2):

Mishra

Héctor Veiga Ortiz

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

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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

Chapter 10. Understanding Various Akka patterns

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

The Master Slave work pulling pattern
Ordered termination of actors
Shutdown patterns in Akka
Scheduling periodic messages to an actor
Throttling of messages while sending them to an actor
Balancing workload across actors
The aggregator pattern
The CountDownLatch pattern
Finite-state machine
The pausable actor pattern
Enveloping actor

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Authors (2)

Mishra

Mishra

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.com

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Héctor Veiga Ortiz

Héctor Veiga Ortiz

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.

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