chapter four
Chapter 4. Fault tolerance
In this chapter
- Building self-healing systems
- Understanding the let-it-crash principle
- Understanding the actor lifecycle
- Supervising actors
- Choosing fault recovery strategies
This chapter covers Akka’s tools for making applications more resilient. The first section describes the let-it-crash principle, including supervision, monitoring, and actor lifecycle features. Of course, we’ll look at some examples that show how to apply these to typical failure scenarios.