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Scala Reactive Programming

You're reading from Scala Reactive Programming Build scalable, functional reactive microservices with Akka, Play, and Lagom

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787288645

Length 552 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Scala

Tools

Akka

Concepts

Microservices

Author (1):

Rambabu Posa

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Reactive and Functional Programming FREE CHAPTER

2. Functional Scala

3. Asynchronous Programming with Scala

4. Building Reactive Applications with Akka

5. Adding Reactiveness with RxScala

6. Extending Applications with Play

7. Working with Reactive Streams

8. Integrating Akka Streams to Play Application

9. Reactive Microservices with Lagom

10. Testing Reactive Microservices

11. Managing Microservices in ConductR

12. Reactive Design Patterns and Best Practices

13. Scala Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA

14. Installing Robomongo

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Introduction to Akka

In this section, we will introduce some basics of the Akka Toolkit to understand it well. If you are already familiar with it and have had good exposure with Akka, skip this section and move on to the next sections.

What is Akka?

Akka is an open source library or a toolkit and runtime from Lightbend Inc. (formerly known as Typesafe), written in the Scala language to develop these attributes:

Concurrent
Distributed
Fault-Tolerant
Message-Driven
Responsive
Highly Scalable
Asynchronous
Non-blocking
Highly performant
Highly available
Ease of maintenance

Applications on the JVM (Java Virtual Machine)

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Authors (1)

Rambabu Posa

Rambabu Posa

Rambabu Posa has been working as Java developer since 2004 and a Scala developer since mid-2015. He loves Functional Programming in the Test-Driven Development way to develop Reactive microservices. He loves teaching and has been giving online training and writing tutorials on both the Java and Scala ecosystems. He loves developing Reactive systems using Lightbend's Reactive Platform Technology stack like Lagom Framework, ConductR, Scala, Akka Toolkit, Akka Streams, Play Framework, and others.

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