Tag: Akka
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Build a Hello World API with Scala and Akka HTTP
Posted on August 29, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Miguel Lopez short and sweet tutorial about building a Hello World web application with Akka. Akka is a popular actor-based toolkit for building concurrent and distributed applications in the JVM. These applications mostly use Scala or Java.
Tags devops akka scala functional-programming web-development apis
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Scalaz 8 IO vs Akka (typed) actors vs Monix
Posted on July 24, 2018, Level advanced Resource Length long
There's a couple of hot development areas in the Scala ecosystem, and the competition between the various side-effect wrappers is one of the most interesting. Adam Warski article comparing various options and trying to find the answer to the question: Can you really replace an Actor with an IO or Task?
Tags akka scala functional-programming
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Akka Streams for mission critical systems
Posted on July 22, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
@AshNuq from Lightbend posted about usage of akka streams in mission critical systems by large online payment industry leaders including PayPal, Credit Karma and Flipkart.
Tags akka functional-programming