List/Grid Tag Archives: Akka
Your first message – discovering Akka
Akka is a platform (framework?) inspired by Erlang, promising easier development of scalable, multi-threaded and safe applications. While in most of the popular languages concurrency ...
JavaOne 2012: Up, Up, and Out: Scaling Software with Akka
After the late-ending Community Keynote, I headed to Hilton Golden Gate 3/4/5 to see Viktor Klang‘s (Typesafe) ‘Up, Up and Out: Akka’ presentation. Klang is the technical ...
Maven Web Project Kickstarter Codebase with Spring, Hibernate, Akka, Twitter Bootstrap, Apache Tiles and jQuery
I am happy to upload my second project to GitHub to help people get started with Java Web App Development as quickly as possible. I am sharing this code with Apache License 2.0. Here ...
Akka STM – 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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Connect to RabbitMQ (AMQP) using Scala, Play and Akka
In this article we’ll look at how you can connect from Scala to RabbitMQ so you can support the AMQP protocol from your applications. In this example I’ll use the Play Framework ...
Play!ing (2.0) with Twitter Bootstrap, WebSockets, Akka and OpenLayers
The original post can be found on the ekito website. For one of our client, we need to show a map with vehicles position updated in real-time. So I began to make a prototype using ...
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 ...
