Project overview and setup

We already implemented our bakery project three times using different technologies in Chapter 11, An Introduction to the Akka and Actor Models, to Chapter 13, Basics of Akka Streams. Let's recap what this is about for the readers who aren't familiar with the third section of this book.

The bakery project

The bakery contains a few employees working together to produce delicious cookies. The structure of their communication is represented in the following diagram:

Each of the employees is skilled in a specific area:

• The Manager drives the process by taking the results of the work of each of the participants and giving them to the next step in the flow. They also create initial shopping...