Facebook showed a slide apparently at a conference, about what HTML is lacking for building apps (see it here). To me, this could have been the...
0 replies - 2076 views - 05/16/13 by Rob Williams in Articles
spray (www.spray.cc) is a suite of lightweight Scala libraries for building and consuming RESTful web services on top of Akka.
In this talk Mathias will...
0 replies - 1200 views - 04/21/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
WatchService
is a handy class that can notify you about any file system changes
(create/update/delete of file) in a given set of directories. It is...
0 replies - 1650 views - 04/17/13 by Tomasz Nurkiewicz in Articles
Composing Futures provides a way to do two (or more) things at the same time and then wait until they are done. Typically in Java this would be done with a...
0 replies - 2246 views - 03/17/13 by Nishant Chandra in Articles
Akka is actor based, event-driven framework for building highly
concurrent, reliable applications. Shouldn't come a surprise that
concept of a future is...
0 replies - 2753 views - 03/15/13 by Tomasz Nurkiewicz in Articles
Let’s continue our discussion of native components that react to
messages from Akka. We will wire in actual image processing to our C++
code. To make the...
0 replies - 1733 views - 02/23/13 by Jan Machacek in Articles
If you haven't heard of Kafka, a super-fast distributed message queue from LinkedIn, you probably ought to look into it, and its heavily involved Apache...
0 replies - 4642 views - 12/14/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
I left a dirty secret lurking in my previous post about 2 phase authentication with text messages. I hope many of you felt uneasy reading...
0 replies - 1510 views - 11/18/12 by Jan Machacek in Articles
Assume our test application became a huge success and slowly a single server is not capable of handling growing traffic. We are faced with two choices:...
0 replies - 1015 views - 11/18/12 by Tomasz Nurkiewicz in Articles
This is another sample that will make its way to the Akka
Patterns project. But for now, you’ll have to settle for a short blog
post explaining how...
0 replies - 1419 views - 11/16/12 by Jan Machacek in Articles
Sometimes our actor needs to react differently based on its internal
state. Typically receiving some specific message causes the state
transition...
0 replies - 2001 views - 11/14/12 by Tomasz Nurkiewicz in Articles
Here comes the time to follow some good practices when implementing actors. One of the most important rules we should follow is avoiding any blocking...
0 replies - 7429 views - 11/14/12 by Tomasz Nurkiewicz in Articles
For people in hurry, here is the code and some steps to run few demo samples.
Disclaimer: I am still learning Play 2.0, please point to me if something...
0 replies - 4190 views - 11/13/12 by Krishna Prasad in Articles
Hope you are having fun so far, but our application has serious performance defect. After measuring response times of the RandomOrgRandom class we...
0 replies - 1366 views - 11/11/12 by Tomasz Nurkiewicz in Articles
In the previous part we implemented our first actor and sent message to it. Unfortunately actor was incapable of returning any result of processing this...
0 replies - 2274 views - 11/08/12 by Tomasz Nurkiewicz in Articles
