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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