This training is the starting point for mastering the nonblocking and asynchronous programming models that lie in the heart of the Spray framework. It starts with an introduction to the REST architecture. Then switch gears to the Akka toolkit and framework, building a sample book catalog application along the way. Once you've learned about the REST architectural style and Actor model—the foundations that the Spray framework is built upon—you'll shape out your own RESTful web services by providing simple route definitions. Further on in the course, author Andriy Redko delves into authentication and authorization, secure transport, documentation, testing, and caching support. Finally, you will learn how to develop the Spray client API to call external web services. Note: Learning Scala Web Development was created by Packt Publishing. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Topics include:
* The Actor model and Akka framework
* RESTful architecture principles and constraints
* Building RESTful services
* Core Spray framework modules such as spray-can, spray-routing, spray-json, spray-caching, and spray-client
* Securing RESTful web services and APIs with Spray
* Configuring Spray applications with HTTPS support
* Documenting Spray RESTful web services using Swagger
* Caching basics
* Calling external RESTful services

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