Reactive Design Patterns (Paperback)

Jamie Allen

ISBN 10: 1617291803 / ISBN 13: 9781617291807

Published by Manning Publications, New York, 2017

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Paperback. DESCRIPTION Modern distributed applications must deliver near-realtime performance while simultaneously managing big data and high user loads spread across environments ranging from cloud systems to mobile devices. Unlike traditional enterprise applications which focus on decoupling their internal components by defining programming interfaces, reactive applications go one step further and decouple their components also at runtime. This makes it possible to react effectively and efficiently to failures, varying user demands, and changes in the application's execution environment. The resulting systems are highly concurrent and fault-tolerant, with minimal dependencies among individual system components. Reactive Design Patterns is a clearly-written guide for building message-driven distributed systems that are resilient, responsive, and elastic. It contains patterns for messaging, flow control, resource management, and concurrency, along with practical issues like test-friendly designs. All patterns include concrete examples using Scala and Akkain some cases, Java, JavaScript, and Erlang. Software engineers and architects will learn patterns that address day-to-day distributed development problems in a fault-tolerant and scalable way. Project leaders and CTOs will gain a deeper understanding of the reactive design philosophy. KEY FEATURES Offers best patterns for building reactive applications All patterns include concrete examples Discover best practices Explains theory behind reactive system design principles AUDIENCE Readers should be familiar with a standard programming language like Java, C++ or C# and be comfortable with the basics of distributed systems. Although most of the book's examples use the Scala language, no prior experience with Scala or Akka is required. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY The design patterns in this book were collected by the consultants and engineers of Typesafe during thousands of hours spent building enterprise-quality applications using Scala and Akka. Although many reactive patterns can be implemented using standard development tools like Java, others require the capabilities offered by a functional programming language like Scala and an Actor-based concurrency system like Akka. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reactive Design Patterns (Paperback)
• Publisher: Manning Publications, New York
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1617291803
• ISBN 13: 9781617291807
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Summary

Reactive Design Patterns is a clearly written guide for building message-driven distributed systems that are resilient, responsive, and elastic. In this book you'll find patterns for messaging, flow control, resource management, and concurrency, along with practical issues like test-friendly designs. All patterns include concrete examples using Scala and Akka. Foreword by Jonas Bonér.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

Modern web applications serve potentially vast numbers of users - and they need to keep working as servers fail and new ones come online, users overwhelm limited resources, and information is distributed globally. A Reactive application adjusts to partial failures and varying loads, remaining responsive in an ever-changing distributed environment. The secret is message-driven architecture - and design patterns to organize it.

About the Book

Reactive Design Patterns presents the principles, patterns, and best practices of Reactive application design. You'll learn how to keep one slow component from bogging down others with the Circuit Breaker pattern, how to shepherd a many-staged transaction to completion with the Saga pattern, how to divide datasets by Sharding, and more. You'll even see how to keep your source code readable and the system testable despite many potential interactions and points of failure.

What's Inside

• The definitive guide to the Reactive Manifesto
• Patterns for flow control, delimited consistency, fault tolerance, and much more
• Hard-won lessons about what doesn't work
• Architectures that scale under tremendous load

About the Reader

Most examples use Scala, Java, and Akka. Readers should be familiar with distributed systems.

About the Author

Dr. Roland Kuhn led the Akka team at Lightbend and coauthored the Reactive Manifesto. Brian Hanafee and Jamie Allen are experienced distributed systems architects.

Table of Contents

PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

1. Why Reactive?
2. A walk-through of the Reactive Manifesto
3. Tools of the trade

PART 2 - THE PHILOSOPHY IN A NUTSHELL

4. Message passing
5. Location transparency
6. Divide and conquer
7. Principled failure handling
8. Delimited consistency
9. Nondeterminism by need
10. Message flow

PART 3 - PATTERNS

11. Testing reactive applications
12. Fault tolerance and recovery patterns
13. Replication patterns
14. Resource-management patterns
15. Message flow patterns
16. Flow control patterns
17. State management and persistence patterns

About the Author

Dr. Roland Kuhn leads the Akka team at Typesafe. Together with Martin Odersky and Erik Meijer, Roland presented the Coursera course Principles of Reactive Programming and co-authored the Reactive Manifesto.

Brian Hanafee is a Principal Systems Architect at a large financial institution, with experience building reliable and secure web-based applications and backing services for millions of customers.

Jamie Allen is the Director of Consulting for Typesafe and author of Effective Akka.