The book "Akka Concurrency" is good -- it helped me with understanding some
of the WHY of supervision, for example.
I saw a link earlier to a minimal project for a cluster application for
scala -- would that kind of example, but for Java, help? I have some
experiments I've written for Akka that
Thanks for feedback. We are painfully aware of that the getting started
experience is horrible. We are working on it since a few months back, but
it takes a lot of times and there tend to be other things that get more
attention. We'll continue the effort with writing a good getting started
guide.
I totally agree with you. I am in the process of evaluating. Hazelcast and
Akka. The documentation and code examples of Hazelcast is much better. I
can quickly have a sense what I need to do if I were to use Hazelcast.
However it is not the case for Akka. Don't get me wrong, I do like some of
Thanks a lot for all the replies.. Since the documents should be good user
manual but not purely documents for the developed technologies from the
developers' perspectives. It could be good if the docs start by a "Get
Started" section (including how to install, configure) to firstly make it
run
If I may be permitted to chime in here with my $0.02, some observations as
an Akka bootstrapper:
Everybody has their own learning style -- some people I know can read even
a fairly dense API spec and start writing code. Personally, I need to get
started on a problem-solving basis so in the early
As former participant of that course, I think they would be a great
addition to the current documentation assets. But I'm still interested in
what the OP thinks it would improve a freshman experience.
Best,
Josep
On Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 8:59:53 PM UTC+1, rkuhn wrote:
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> While “terribl
While “terrible” is pretty strong wording I think it is fair to say that Akka
has very good reference documentation but its initial learning experience can
be improved. Would it help if some of the video courses were available (for
free, of course) that were part of Principles of Reactive Progra
Welcome to Akka!
As Lutz already said, I would recommend "Akka in Action". The only catch is
that the code is mainly in Scala.
I have a question though, why do you say the official documentation is
terrible? I personally find Akka docs quite good. What would you change/add
to the current ones?
I hear Akka in Action https://www.manning.com/books/akka-in-action is
pretty good. Apparently you can read the first 3 chapters for free if you
sign up for the newsletter on the Lightbend
website: https://www.lightbend.com/resources/e-books
Hope this helps,
Lutz
On Thursday, 19 January 2017
