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You're reading from Learn Scala Programming A comprehensive guide covering functional and reactive programming with Scala 2.13, Akka, and Lagom

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788836302

Length 498 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Scala

Tools

Akka

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Slava Schmidt

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. An Introduction to Scala 2.13

2. Understanding Types in Scala FREE CHAPTER

3. Deep Dive into Functions

4. Getting to Know Implicits and Type Classes

5. Property-Based Testing in Scala

6. Exploring Built-In Effects

7. Understanding Algebraic Structures

8. Dealing with Effects

9. Familiarizing Yourself with Basic Monads

10. A Look at Monad Transformers and Free Monad

11. An Introduction to the Akka and Actor Models

12. Building Reactive Applications with Akka Typed

13. Basics of Akka Streams

14. Project 1 - Building Microservices with Scala

15. Project 2 - Building Microservices with Lagom

16. Preparing the Environment and Running Code Samples

17. Assessments

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Questions

Name two different modes associated with "classic" streams. What is problematic with them?
Why are Reactive Streams considered as workable in dynamic pull-push mode?
What are the typical building blocks of Akka Stream's graph?
How do we convert a graph into a runnable graph?
What is the main goal of having materialization as a separate explicit step?
Describe the effects of applying different supervision strategies.
Which main abstractions provide an Akka Streams TestKit? Why are they useful?

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Authors (1)

Schmidt

Slava Schmidt is a software developer living in Germany. During his career, he has used a wide spectrum of programming languages, ranging from Assembler to Haskell, and progressed from an intern programmer, via head of engineering, to a Scala contractor. In his current role, he helps to develop and bring into production a number of Scala projects of various sizes and complexities for customers from different industries. He is a contributor to open source projects related to Scala and Akka. As a passionate conference speaker, he regularly gives talks about technologies to share his experiences with other developers.

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