# Books and Videos

## Books

### Recommended reads
 * [Reactive Design Patterns](https://www.reactivedesignpatterns.com/), by Roland Kuhn with Jamie Allen and Brian Hanafee, Manning Publications Co., ISBN 9781617291807, Feb 2017
 * [Akka in Action](https://www.lightbend.com/resources/e-book/akka-in-action), by Raymond Roestenburg and Rob Bakker, Manning Publications Co., ISBN: 9781617291012, September 2016
 
### Other reads about Akka and the Actor model
 * [Akka Cookbook](https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/akka-cookbook), by Héctor Veiga Ortiz & Piyush Mishra, PACKT Publishing, ISBN: 9781785288180, May 2017
 * [Mastering Akka](https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/mastering-akka), by Christian Baxter, PACKT Publishing, ISBN: 9781786465023, October 2016
 * [Learning Akka](https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/learning-akka), by Jason Goodwin, PACKT Publishing, ISBN: 9781784393007, December 2015
 * [Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model](https://www.informit.com/store/reactive-messaging-patterns-with-the-actor-model-applications-9780133846836), by Vaughn Vernon, Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN: 0133846830, August 2015
 * [Developing an Akka Edge](https://bleedingedgepress.com/developing-an-akka-edge/), by Thomas Lockney and Raymond Tay, Bleeding Edge Press, ISBN: 9781939902054, April 2014
 * [Effective Akka](https://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028789.do), by Jamie Allen, O'Reilly Media, ISBN: 1449360076, August 2013
 * [Akka Concurrency](https://www.artima.com/shop/akka_concurrency), by Derek Wyatt, artima developer, ISBN: 0981531660, May 2013
 * [Akka Essentials](https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/akka-essentials), by Munish K. Gupta, PACKT Publishing, ISBN: 1849518289, October 2012
  * [Start Building RESTful Microservices using Akka HTTP with Scala](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1976762545/), by Ayush Kumar Mishra, Knoldus Software LLP, ISBN: 9781976762543, December 2017

## Videos

 * [Effective Akka HTTP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxQta776jJI), by Johannes Rudolph, Reactive Systems Meetup Hamburg, November 2016
 * [Zen of Akka](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgFoKOxrTzg) - an overview of good and bad practices in Akka, by Konrad Malawski, ScalaDays New York, June 2016
 * [Learning Akka Videos](https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/learning-akka-video), by Salma Khater, PACKT Publishing, ISBN: 9781784391836, January 2016
 * [Building Microservice with AKKA HTTP (Video)](https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/building-microservice-akka-http-video), by Tomasz Lelek, PACKT Publishing, ISBN: 9781788298582, March 2017

## Blogs

A list of [blogs and presentations](https://akka.io/blog/external-archive.html) curated by the Akka team.
