Study notes from the second edition of Akka in Action.
Introduction to the concept of an actor as a unit of concurrent programming and Akka framework. The main points of the chapter are:
- Akka framework simplifies building applications by proving a single abstraction model.
- The model provided scales well from single cpu machine to many machines distributed among separate data centers forming a cluster.
Chapter also explains the most basic Akka concepts:
- Actor -
- ActorSystem -
- Context -
- Dispatcher -
- Mailbox -
You can execute the code in a module by using sbt
command:
# Get list of modules
sbt projects
# Run code in 'hello' module
sbt "hello / run"