What this book covers

Chapter 1, Building a Better Reactive App, introduces you to the initial sample application and how it will be improved over the course of this book.

Chapter 2, Simplifying Concurrent Programming with Actors, is a refresher on Actors with some refactoring work using Akka’s FSM.

Chapter 3, Curing Anemic Models with Domain-Driven Design, introduces you to domain-driven design (DDD) and how it helps in modeling and building software.

Chapter 4, Making History with Event Sourcing, presents Akka Persistence as a means to build event-sourced entities.

Chapter 5, Separating Concerns with CQRS, teaches you how to separate read and write models using the CQRS pattern.

Chapter 6, Going with the Flow with Akka Streams, explains how Akka Streams can be used to build back-pressure aware, stream-based processing components.

Chapter 7, REST Easy with Akka HTTP, shows you how to leverage Akka HTTP to build and consume RESTful interfaces.

Chapter 8, Scaling Out with Akka Remoting/Clustering, demonstrates how to use remoting and clustering to gain horizontal scalability and high availability.

Chapter 9, Managing Deployments with ConductR, illustrates building, deploying, and locating your microservices with ConductR.

Chapter 10, Troubleshooting and Best Practices, presents a few final tips and best practices for using Akka.