actors

Akka Actors: Introduction and its Functionality

Reading Time: 3 minutes Here in this blog i am going to explain what is an Akka Actor and how we actually work with Akka Actors. What is Akka Akka is a toolkit for building highly concurrent, distributed and resilient message- driven application for Scala and java. Akka support several programming models for concurrency. it is very useful for writing server – side scalable applications. Using Akka it is Continue Reading

Akka Toolkit | Creating your First Akka Actor | Scala

Reading Time: 3 minutes Akka, a free open source toolkit simplifying the construction of concurrent and distributed system/application. In this blog we are gonna discussing about Akka, Actors and finally creating and running our first actor. Akka – Again, it is a free and open-source toolkit and runtime. It is used to develop highly concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant message-driven applications on the JVM(Java Virtual Machine). It includes features for Continue Reading

Achieving Concurrency with Akka Actors

Reading Time: 3 minutes Java comes with a built-in multi-threading model based on shared data and locks. To use this model, you decide what data will be shared by multiple threads and mark as “synchronized” sections of the code that access the shared data. It also provides a locking mechanism to ensure that only one thread can access the shared data at a time. Lock operations remove possibilities for Continue Reading