Akka
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Scala
become/unbecome – discovering Akka
Sometimes our actor needs to react differently based on its internal state. Typically receiving some specific message causes the state…
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Scala
Request and response – discovering Akka
In the previous part we implemented our first actor and sent message to it. Unfortunately actor was incapable of returning…
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Scala
Your first message – discovering Akka
Akka is a platform (framework?) inspired by Erlang, promising easier development of scalable, multi-threaded and safe applications. While in most…
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Enterprise Java
JavaOne 2012: Up, Up, and Out: Scaling Software with Akka
After the late-ending Community Keynote, I headed to Hilton Golden Gate 3/4/5 to see Viktor Klang‘s (Typesafe) ‘Up, Up and…
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Enterprise Java
Maven Web Project Kickstarter Codebase with Spring, Hibernate, Akka, Twitter Bootstrap, Apache Tiles and jQuery
I am happy to upload my second project to GitHub to help people get started with Java Web App Development…
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Enterprise Java
Akka STM – Playing PingPong with STM Refs and Agents
PingPong is a classic example where 2 players (or threads) access a shared resource – PingPong Table and pass the…
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Enterprise Java
Implementing Master Slave / Grid Computing Pattern in Akka
Master Slave pattern is a prime example of fault tolerance and parallel computation. The idea behind the pattern is to…
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Enterprise Java
Processing 10 million messages with Akka
Akka Actors promise concurrency. What better way to simulate that and see if how much time it takes to process…
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Enterprise Java
Word Count MapReduce with Akka
In my ongoing workings with Akka, i recently wrote an Word count map reduce example. This example implements the Map…
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