Tag: akka
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Anatomy of Lagom Part 1: The Technical Stack
Lagom is a framework for building microservices. It’s based on Lightbend’s reactive technology stack. I’ve been playing around with the Scala version of it and I’m noting down some of my understanding here to supplement the Lagom (+ Play + Akka) documentation. Starting with the high level overview of the technical stack, Lagom has both…
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Akka-Typed: Part 1 – Actors and ActorSystems
Akka-Typed has been described as production ready with the release of Akka 2.5.22 so it’s worth exploring what the move to Typed will mean for the interaction patterns we’re used to. There are many new ways of working with Actors in Typed. Here we’ll focus on the major differences around how ActorSystem and an Actor…