Akka Platform Guide
Welcome to the Akka Platform Guide!
Akka is a toolkit for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications.
Both beginners getting started with Reactive principles and active Akka users will find this guide useful to improve their understanding of how Akka fits into Reactive and how Reactive concepts apply to Akka. The guide complements the Akka reference documentation 
, which presents all Akka features in detail.
The tutorials in this guide show end-to-end use-cases implemented in Akka with the Reactive principles in mind. The tutorials go through implementing a system step-by-step to illustrate how the Akka APIs apply together.
How to get the most out of this guide
For a code-first experience, have a look at the Implementing Microservices with Akka tutorial which walks you through an example project and explains how features from the Akka ecosystem fit together to build Reactive Systems. The tutorial will point you to the relevant concepts where applicable.
If this is your first experience with Reactive frameworks or with Akka, we present some background and ideas behind Reactive in the Concepts section. You can read those when they are introduced in the tutorial, or read them first if you prefer a more theoretical overview before diving into the code. There you will learn for example:
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The challenges that Reactive Architecture can help you overcome
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A summary of Reactive Principles
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The benefits of using Akka
Akka Microservices tutorial
The Implementing Microservices with Akka tutorial illustrates how to implement an Event Sourced CQRS application with Akka Persistence and Akka Projections.
The tutorial shows how to build the services piece by piece:
How to…
Some development tasks arise from requirements on existing projects. The How to … section collects guidance for how to introduce a new feature or architectural improvement on an existing codebase.
This documentation was last published: 2021-01-18