Benchmarking High-Concurrency HTTP Servers on the JVM

After a first post about HTTP clients, to which I redirect you for an introduction about efficient HTTP on the…

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Distributed Quasar Actors with Kafka and ZeroMQ

So you’ve got a fancy design using actors, you’ve chosen the JVM and Quasar’s powerful, loyal take on the subject.…

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High-Concurrency HTTP Clients on the JVM

HTTP is probably the most popular application-level protocol and there are many libraries that implement it on top of network…

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New Releases with a Better Kotlin API, Dataflow for Clojure and Faster Web Actors

Today we have released minor updates to Quasar, Pulsar and Comsat. The releases contain bug fixes, and some new features…

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Quasar and Akka – a Comparison

The actor model is a design pattern for fault-tolerant and highly scalable systems. Actors are independent worker-modules that communicate with…

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On Servlets and Async Servlets

The Servlet API, part of the Java EE standard, has long been (since 1998, when the 2.1 specification was officially…

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