Microservices have become a cornerstone in designing scalable, maintainable, and resilient software systems. Reactive microservices take this a step further by adhering to the principles of reactive systems, providing better resource efficiency and user experience through responsive, resilient, elastic, and message-driven architecture. By Arthur C. Codex.
The article then covers:
- Understanding Akka HTTP
- Setting up your project
- Building a simple Akka HTTP service
- Implementing reactive microservices
- Persistence and event sourcing
- Testing your services
Akka HTTP offers a toolkit for building REST/HTTP services. It is built on top of Akka Streams and provides a high-level server- and client-side API. The main advantage of using Akka HTTP is its ability to handle streaming data and back-pressure, thus adhering to reactive stream principles. Nice one!
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