Akka Serverless exposes part of the open-source battle-tested Akka framework as an as-a-service offering. If you ever wondered what a fully managed version of Akka Cluster+Sharding+Persistence would look like, here’s the answer! If you don’t know what Akka is at all, don’t worry — we’ll cover all the necessary details. By Adam Warski.
Source: https://softwaremill.com/first-look-at-akka-serverless/#case-study-user-registration
The main points in this article:
- Programming model
- Technicalities ()
- State models
- Actions
- Effects
- Views
- Inter-service communication
- Case study: user registration
… and more. The basic unit of deployment in Akka Serverless is a service written in any of the supported languages (there are official SDKs for Java and JavaScript, with more community SDKs available and more official ones coming). Very interesting read!
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