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What is Akka?
Before I delve into what is an Akka, let us take a step back to understand how the concept of concurrent programming has evolved in the application development world. The applications have evolved from...
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Word Count MapReduce with Akka
In my ongoing workings with Akka, i recently wrote an Word count map reduce example. This example implements the Map Reduce model, which is very good fit for a scale out design approach.Flow The client...
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Processing 10 million messages with Akka
Akka Actors promise concurrency. What better way to simulate that and see if how much time it takes to process 10 million messages using commodity hardware and software without any low level tunings. I...
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Implementing Master Slave / Grid Computing Pattern in Akka
Master Slave pattern is a prime example of fault tolerance and parallel computation. The idea behind the pattern is to partition the work into identical sub tasks which are then delegated to Slaves....
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Unit testing toolkit is provided via TestKit in Akka. The scala side of unit testing is well covered. For java, TestKit provides limited constructs. The various examples implemented by Ray Roestenburg...
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Playing PingPong with STM - Refs and Agents
PingPong is a classic example where 2 players (or threads) access a shared resource - PingPong Table and pass the Ball (state variable) between each other. With any shared resource, unless we...
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Adding Turbchargers to JEE Apps
One of the key roles, I play is evangelizing Akka within my local community. As part of the discussions, the question/doubt usually in people's mind is how can Akka provide better scalability and...
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Software Transactional Memory (STM)
The Actor Model is based on the premise of small independent processes working in isolation and where the state can be updated only via message passing. The actors hold the state within themselves, but...
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Akka Essentials Giveaway contest!
Year 2013 has begun and what better way to start then by participating in the contest organized by Packt Publishing.The PrizeThe prizes are 2 print copies and 2 ebooks of my new book Akka Essentials...
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Design Pattern - Adding Instrumentation and other metrics collection to Akka Actors without polluting the business logicAkka in Production: Our Story from Evan Chan
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The Road to Akka Cluster and Beyond from Jonas Bonér
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