Akka
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Scala

Building a REST service in Scala with Akka HTTP, Akka Streams and reactive mongo
At the end of last year I wrote a couple of articles that showed how you can use Spray.io to…
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Enterprise Java

A reactive and performant Spray + Akka solution to “Playing with concurrency and performance in Java and Node.js”
In my previous post I examined a fictitious trading engine and compared a Java based blocking solution to a Node.js…
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Scala

ReactiveMongo with Akka, Scala and websockets
I was looking for a simple websocket server for one of my projects to test some stuff with reactive mongo.…
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Core Java

Use reactive streams API to combine akka-streams with rxJava
Just a quick article this time, since I’m still experimenting with this stuff. There is a lot of talk around…
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Scala

Akka Notes – Actor Supervision – 8
Failures are more like a feature among distributed systems. And with Akka’s let it crash fault tolerance model, you could…
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Scala

Clustering reactmq with akka-cluster
In the last two posts on reactmq, I described how to write a reactive, persistent message queue. The queue has…
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Scala

Akka Notes – DeathWatch – 7
When we talked about Actor lifecycle, we saw that Actors could be stopped by various means (using ActorSystem.stop or ActorContext.stop…
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Scala

From Java 7 Futures to Akka actors with Scala
This blog post will show you how a step by step transition from a “java 7 and j.u.c.Future” based implementation…
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Scala

Akka Notes – Child Actors and ActorPath – 6
Actors are completely hierarchical. Whatever Actors that you create HAS to be a child of some other Actor. Let’s analyze…
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