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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Akka Notes – ActorSystem (Configuration and Scheduling) – 4

As we saw from our previous posts, we could create an Actor using the actorOf method of the ActorSystem. There’s…

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