Summary
Reactive Applications with Akka.NET
is a hands-on book that builds on fundamental concepts to teach you how to create reliable and resilient applications in the reactive style.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
Enterprise-scale software needs to be unfailingly reliable, consistently performant under unpredictable loads, and easy to scale and maintain. Reactive applications guarantee these qualities through clear isolation of system components and message-based communication. Akka.NET ports the battle-tested Akka Actors toolkit from the JVM, radically simplifying the concurrency and asynchronous message handling at the heart of a reactive system.
About the Book
teaches you to write high-performance, concurrent systems without explicitly managing threads and locking. You'll experience the power of Akka.NET and the Actors concurrency model by exploring a real-world case study in each chapter. As you go further, you'll start to grok the power of asynchronous communication in a distributed environment and take on practical tasks like deploying, debugging, and establishing performance guarantees.
What's Inside
Reactive application design
Dealing with application-level failures
Integrating Akka.NET with other frameworks
Applying reactive programming to the real world
About the Reader
Readers should be comfortable with C# or F# and the .NET framework.
About the Author
Anthony Brown
is a .NET consultant specializing in F# and reactive systems.
Table of Contents
PART 1 THE ROAD TO REACTIVE
Why reactive?
PART 2 DIGGING IN
Your first Akka.NET application
State, behavior, and actors
Configuration, dependency injection, and logging
Failure handling
Scaling in reactive systems
Composing actor systems
PART 3 REAL-LIFE USAGE
Testing Akka.NET actors
Integrating Akka.NET
Storing actor state with Akka.Persistence
Building clustered applications with Akka.Cluster
Akka.NET and reactive programming in production