10 Practical Docker Tips for Day to Day Docker usage

I’ve had the opportunity to setup a complete new docker based microservice architecture at my current job, so since everyone…

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Akka Typed Actors: Exploring the receptionist pattern

In this article we’ll explore another of Akka-Typed patterns. This time we’ll show you how you can use the receptionist…

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Two-way SSL (client certificates) with Scalatest

At work we recently added the option to authenticate machine to machine communication using client certificates (two-way ssl). While this…

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Akka Typed Actors: Exploring the receiver pattern

In the previous article we looked at some of the basic features provided by Akka Typed. In this article and…

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Akka Typed: First steps with typed actors in Scala

With the [release of Akka 2.4.0| http://akka.io/news/] a couple of weeks ago the experimental Akka Typed module was added. With…

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Listen to notifications from Postgresql with Scala

In the past I’ve written a couple of articles (Building a REST service in Scala with Akka HTTP, Akka Streams…

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Scala typeclass explained: Implement a String.read function

In this short article I’d like to explain how you can use the typeclass pattern in Scala to implement adhoc…

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Easy validation in Scala using Scalaz, Readers and ValidationNel

I’m working on a new book for Packt which shows how you can use various Scala frameworks to create REST…

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Backpressure in action with websockets and akka-streams

So in the previous article I showed how you could create a websocket server using akka-streams. In this follow up…

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