Building a reactive system with Akka

Akka, the distributed systems toolkit, has been pushing the envelope of distributed and reactive systems for many years now. Konrad Malawski and Henrik Engstrm walk you through writing services using state-of-the-art technology like Akka Cluster and Streams and expose them as microservices using Akka HTTP, Play, or Lagom.

Akka, the distributed systems toolkit, has been pushing the envelope of distributed and reactive systems for many years now. Konrad Malawski and Henrik Engström walk you through writing services using state-of-the-art technology. You’ll build a few streaming (micro)services using the Reactive Streaming Akka HTTP server and back them with Akka Clusters, to utilize its high-performance messaging capabilities. You’ll also connect to other data sources and sinks using Akka Streams and the Alpakka umbrella project. Konrad and Henrik touch upon how monitoring such distributed systems is crucial because otherwise it might be hard to find where things are going wrong.