Part 2. Digging in

Part 2 digs down into the details that you need to create fully functional reactive systems in Akka.NET. Chapter 3 presents your first Akka.NET application, taking you through the design patterns typically used when designing reactive systems in Akka.NET. Chapter 4 will teach you how to selectively receive messages into an actor with switchable behaviors, and will also teach you the basics on finite state machines, including how to model them using Akka.NET. Chapter 5 takes a deep look into how you can instrument and operationalize an Akka.NET application through the configuration of individual actors and actor systems as a whole. Chapter 6 focuses on how to respond to service failures within an Akka.NET application, delivering an in-depth look from the original source of the failure to typical failure models. In chapter 7, you’ll take a look at the difficulties involved with traditional scaling approaches, and how the Akka.NET approach is different. Chapter 8 looks at actor systems and how to link, scale, and create applications that can handle machine-level failure.