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...
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Akka Streams for Real Backpressure Problems
A practical introduction to Akka Streams through the problems that make it valuable in production: backpressure, uneven throughput, bounded resources,...
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 MoreSupervision, Failure, and Recovery
Learn how Akka supervision contains failure, when restart or stop is the right decision, and how to recover from real production problems without hidi...
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...
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