Developing parallel application using Akka framework

This Master's thesis is focused on development of parallel application using the Akka framework. It primary deals with possibilities of using actor model and its concrete Akka implementation. The theoretical portion of this thesis introduces the basic abstract principles of both this and some other selected practices. The main text of this thesis builds on this introduction and analyzes possibilities of implementing these principles with the help of Akka. Both basic concepts, such as creating actors, actor systems or sending messages, and advanced topics such as distribution of applications using remote actor or hierarchical actor structures, are demonstrated using practical code samples. This thesis also includes implementation of accompanying application which implements many of these concepts in the context of a complete program. The possibilities of integrating other framework and libraries together with Akka toolkit are also analyzed within this application. In the end the thesis contains analysis of both benefits and problems connected to using Akka's actor model, together with possible alternative approaches to the implementation of both individual parts of the system and the final architecture of the whole application.