Understanding Akka’s Recommended Practice for Actor Creation in Scala
Our friends at Cake Solutions wrote a nice article explaining the why behind the recommended way to declare Actor Props.
IBM developerWorks blog on Akka
Dennis Sosnoski posted a very nice post explaining some of the core concepts of Akka as well as a non-trivial example on the IBM developerWorks blog, as part of the on-going article series on jvm concurrency.