Reactive Web Applications:with Scala, Play, Akka, and Reactive Streams

DESCRIPTION The emerging reactive model is ideal for high-performance web applications that need to manage the unpredictably-bursty behavior of the web, along with the potential instability of running on networks not fully controlled. By using application components that communicate asynchronously a [...]
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DESCRIPTION The emerging reactive model is ideal for high-performance web applications that need to manage the unpredictably-bursty behavior of the web, along with the potential instability of running on networks not fully controlled. By using application components that communicate asynchronously as they react to user and system events, reactive applications are more scalable, responsive, and fault-tolerant than standard monolithic applications. For web developers working in Java or Scala, the Play framework makes it easy to implement reactive applications without taking on the overhead of building everything from scratch. Reactive Web Applications teaches web developers how to benefit from the reactive application architecture and presents hands-on examples using the Play framework. It introduces Play as a framework to handle the plumbing of applications. The book alternates between chapters that introduce reactive ideas like asynchronous programming, managing distributed state, and fault tolerance and examples that show how to build such applications using Play. Readers new to Play will be able to learn from the ground up.Those already using Play will get a deeper look at how to implement reactive web applications effectively. KEY SELLING POINTS Practical hands-on guide Based on real-life experiences Lots of examples to illuminate core concepts AUDIENCE Readers should be comfortable programming with a higher-level language such as Java or C#, and reading Scala code. No prior experience with Play framework of reactive applications is required. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY Driven by user's expectations, web-applications are slowly but surely shifting into the realm of instant data availability. A new class of so-called reactive applications is emerging: being responsive, resilient, scalable, and event-driven, they leverage multi-core and multi-node architectures and require new tools in order to be developed efficiently. The Play Framework is built on top of the Scala programming language and is leveraging the Akka concurrency toolkit. It provides a solid foundation for building reactive applications, both at the back-end and the front-end.