Reactive Applications with Akka.NET

SummaryReactive 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 TechnologyEnterprise-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 BookReactive Applications with Akka.NET 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 InsideReactive application designDealing with application-level failuresIntegrating Akka.NET with other frameworksApplying reactive programming to the real worldAbout the ReaderReaders should be comfortable with C# or F# and the .NET framework.About the AuthorAnthony Brown is a .NET consultant specializing in F# and reactive systems.Table of ContentsPART 1 THE ROAD TO REACTIVEWhy reactive?Reactive application designPART 2 DIGGING INYour first Akka.NET applicationState, behavior, and actorsConfiguration, dependency injection, and loggingFailure handlingScaling in reactive systemsComposing actor systemsPART 3 REAL-LIFE USAGETesting Akka.NET actorsIntegrating Akka.NETStoring actor state with Akka.PersistenceBuilding clustered applications with Akka.ClusterAkka.NET and reactive programming in production