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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JavaOne 2012: Up, Up, and Out: Scaling Software with Akka

After the late-ending Community Keynote, I headed to Hilton Golden Gate 3/4/5 to see Viktor Klang‘s (Typesafe) ‘Up, Up and…

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Maven Web Project Kickstarter Codebase with Spring, Hibernate, Akka, Twitter Bootstrap, Apache Tiles and jQuery

I am happy to upload my second project to GitHub to help people get started with Java Web App Development…

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Akka STM – Playing PingPong with STM Refs and Agents

PingPong is a classic example where 2 players (or threads) access a shared resource – PingPong Table and pass the…

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Implementing Master Slave / Grid Computing Pattern in Akka

Master Slave pattern is a prime example of fault tolerance and parallel computation. The idea behind the pattern is to…

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Processing 10 million messages with Akka

Akka Actors promise concurrency. What better way to simulate that and see if how much time it takes to process…

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Word Count MapReduce with Akka

In my ongoing workings with Akka, i recently wrote an Word count map reduce example. This example implements the Map…

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Connect to RabbitMQ (AMQP) using Scala, Play and Akka

In this article we’ll look at how you can connect from Scala to RabbitMQ so you can support the AMQP…

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