Why use Akka? Akka handles all of the underlying threading complexities by allowing you to just focus on dividing your tasks into actors, defining messages to pass among actors, and wiring together their communication logic.
The real power of Akka is realized when you distribute actors across multiple machines. You could spin off hundreds of Akka servers to run your actors, and the Akka toolkit seamlessly handles the distribution and communication of the messages among the actors.…