This book will explain how to create Akka applications using best practices based on several years of experience with Actors. The content will be general enough that it would apply to actor-based applications on the whole, but the examples would be in Akka using both the Java and Scala APIs. The ideal audience would be Java/Scala developers making the leap to building actor-based systems looking for design guidance - expert level Java/Scala developers, but beginning to intermediate level actor developers.