“Akka Essentials” will show you the current challenges with Java Scalability and concurrency model and how Akka’s Actor Model can help you design and build applications that are inherently scalable and fault-tolerant. Whether you are building new applications or want to refactor an existing application, you will learn the right techniques to build and scale up in no time.

What you will learn from this book

Scale up and out your applications using dispatchers and remoting
Build fault tolerance within your application
Handle transactions within your application
Unit test your Akka applications
Integrate your Akka applications with existing enterprise systems using Zeromq
Monitor the health of your Akka application

Approach
This is a step-by-step guide where each chapter will teach you a concept by explaining it with clear and lucid examples– each chapter can be read independently.

Who this book is written for
This book is aimed at developers, architects who are building large distributed concurrent and scalable applications using Java/Scala. The book assumes knowledge of Java/JEE concepts but no knowledge of Actor model is assumed.