Akka Notes – Actor Messaging – Request and Response – 3

Last time when we saw Actor messaging, we saw how fire-n-forget messages are sent (Meaning, we just send a message…

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Akka Notes – Actor Logging and Testing

In the first two parts (one, two), we briefly talked about Actors and how messaging works. In this part, let’s…

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Akka Notes – Actor Messaging – 1

From the introductory first part of the Akka Notes, we saw a bird’s eye view of Actors in the Akka…

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Akka Notes – Introducing Actors

Anyone who has done multithreading in the past won’t deny how hard and painful it is to manage multithreaded applications.…

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Monitoring Akka with Kamon

I like the JVM a lot because there are a lot of tools available for inspecting a running JVM instance…

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Akka Cluster with Docker containers

This article will show you how to build docker images that contain a single akka cluster application. You will be able…

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Making the Reactive Queue durable with Akka Persistence

Some time ago I wrote how to implement a reactive message queue with Akka Streams. The queue supports streaming send…

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Handle Every Event in Your Akka Application

Event here, event there, events flying everywhere. Post about checking that every Akka event will finally find its home. Akka…

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Reactive Queue with Akka Reactive Streams

Reactive streams is a recently announced initiative to create a standard for asynchronous stream processing with built-in back-pressure, on the…

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