Forcing Tomcat to log through SLF4J/Logback

So you have your executable web application in JAR with bundled Tomcat (make sure to read that one first). However…

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Standalone web application with executable Tomcat

When it comes to deploying your application, simplicity is the biggest advantage. You’ll understand that especially when project evolves and…

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Parallelization of a simple use case explained

Some time ago a friend of mine asked me about the possibilities of speeding up the following process: they are…

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Non-blocking I/O – discovering Akka

Here comes the time to follow some good practices when implementing actors. One of the most important rules we should…

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Two actors – discovering Akka

Hope you are having fun so far, but our application has serious performance defect. After measuring response times of the…

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Remote actors – discovering Akka

Assume our test application became a huge success and slowly a single server is not capable of handling growing traffic.…

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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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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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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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