Cluster Sharding and Location-Transparent State
Learn how Akka Cluster Sharding distributes large numbers of stateful entities across a cluster, why location transparency matters, and where sharding...
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Building Event-Driven Systems with Akka
Learn how Akka actors and streams support production event-driven systems, from event fan-out and decoupled processing to retries, dead letters, and o...
Read MoreAsk Pattern, Fire-and-Forget, and Workflow Boundaries
Learn when an Akka actor should wait for a reply, when it should send work asynchronously and move on, and how to keep actor workflows from collapsing...
Read MoreState, Behavior, and Time in Actors
Learn how Akka actors model changing state over time through explicit behavior transitions, using practical examples such as sessions, rate limiting, ...
Read MoreDesigning Good Message Protocols
Learn how to design Akka message protocols that are explicit, safe, and evolvable, using realistic payment and inventory workflows instead of vague ac...
Read MoreYour First Useful Akka Typed Service
Build a realistic Akka Typed service around order intake, and learn how behaviors, message protocols, child actors, and lifecycle decisions fit togeth...
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