contents

 

front matter

preface

acknowledgments

about this book

about the author

about the cover illustration

1 Introducing Akka

1.1 What is Akka?

1.2 Actors: A quick overview

1.3 Two approaches to scaling: Setting up the example

1.4 Traditional scaling

Traditional scaling and durability: Moving everything to the database

Traditional scaling and interactive use: Polling

Traditional scaling: Transactions

1.5 Scaling with Akka

Scaling with Akka and durability: Sending and receiving messages

Scaling with Akka and interactive use: Pushing messages

Scaling with Akka and failure: Asynchronous decoupling

The Akka approach: Sending and receiving messages

1.6 Actors: One programming model to rule up and out

An asynchronous model

Actor operations