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Akka Cookbook

You're reading from   Akka Cookbook Recipes for concurrent, fast, and reactive applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785288180
Length 414 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vivek Mishra Vivek Mishra
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Piyush Mishra Piyush Mishra
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Héctor Veiga Ortiz Héctor Veiga Ortiz
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Diving into Akka FREE CHAPTER 2. Supervision and Monitoring 3. Routing Messages 4. Using Futures and Agents 5. Scheduling Actors and Other Utilities 6. Akka Persistence 7. Remoting and Akka Clustering 8. Akka Streams 9. Akka HTTP 10. Understanding Various Akka patterns 11. Microservices with Lagom

Consuming services

A microservices architecture is formed by multiple different microservices that communicate with each other to work together and achieve a task. For example, your architecture could have an authentication microservice responsible for authorizing and authenticating users. Other services would use the authentication microservice to check the permissions of the user making the request. So, the rest of the services would need to communicate with the authentication service before proceeding with any other task. Lagom provides an elegant mechanism to locate an external service (through the Service Locator) and interact with it by knowing its API module.

In this recipe, we will look at how we can communicate with other Lagom services without the need to manually create a REST client, a serialization framework, or any other elements. 

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