内容简介
Akka是JAVA虚拟机JVM平台上构建高并发、分布式和容错应用的工具包和运行库，同时提供了Scala和Java的开发接口。本书主要介绍了Akka的Actor开发模型，并行编程、消息传递、路由功能、集群、持久化等内容，还介绍了Akka的配置、系统集成和性能分析与度量等有关知识，全面介绍了Akka的主要功能，并给出了丰富的实例。
本书可作为程序员、软件工程师和架构师关于开发分布式并行应用的参考，也可以作为高等院校分布式并行开发的教材还可以作为对于分布式并行开发感兴趣的读者的入门参考书。
作者简介
Raymond Roestenburg is an experienced software craftsman, polyglot programmer, and software architect. He is an active member of the Scala community, an Akka committer, and contributed to the Akka-Camel module.
Rob Bakker is an experienced developer focused on concurrent back-end systems and system integration. He has used Scala and Akka in production from version 0.7.
Rob Williams is founder of ontometrics, a practice that has been focused on Java solutions that include machine learning. He first used Actor-based programming a decade ago, and found Akka while looking for someone who had given thought to the idea of supervision, and has used it for several projects since.