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Mastering Akka

You're reading from   Mastering Akka A hands-on guide to build application using the Akka framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786465023
Length 436 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Christian Baxter Christian Baxter
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Preface 1. Building a Better Reactive App FREE CHAPTER 2. Simplifying Concurrent Programming with Actors 3. Curing Anemic Models with Domain-Driven Design 4. Making History with Event Sourcing 5. Separating Concerns with CQRS 6. Going with the Flow with Akka Streams 7. REST Easy with Akka HTTP 8. Scaling Out with Akka Remoting/Clustering 9. Managing Deployments with ConductR 10. Troubleshooting and Best Practices

Refactoring the view building code


Hopefully, at this point, you have a pretty good understanding of what you can do with Akka Streams. It's a pretty big topic, certainly enough to fill a book on it's own. I've tried to cover all of the areas that I thought were important for someone who was learning Akka Streams for the first time. Armed with that knowledge, we can now take care of some unfinished business, which was leftover from Chapter 5, Separating Concerns with CQRS.

When we built out the ViewBuilder framework in Chapter 5, Separating Concerns with CQRS, we had the source from our eventsByTag query essentially piping the events back to itself and then processing them as if they were regular inbound actor messages. This works, and it's pretty simple, but you won't get any of the benefits of back-pressure handling. The actor that receives the messages will dequeue events as fast as possible, which can possibly lead to memory issues with its mailbox. Also, whatever is happening downstream...

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