Shradha Saxena, Author at Knoldus Blogs

Demystifying Dispatchers in Akka

December 5, 2020December 5, 2020Akka, Scaladispatcher, Lightbend CoE

Reading Time: 2 minutes As the name suggests ‘dispatch‘ decides when the actor should dispatch a message and when it does not have to. In the situation in which you think that your actor system must get faster but it’s not working as per expectation then dispatchers are the first place, you should look at. It’s up to the Dispatchers to decide when to allow the actor to process Continue Reading

Scheduling Messages in Akka

November 15, 2020November 15, 2020Akka, Lightbend, ScalaLightbend CoE

Reading Time: 2 minutes Take a situation where you want to make an actor sleep and it should resume after a period of time. Or you want your actor to perform a task on a recurring basis then you must schedule a message. Here I will discuss how to do that !! Scheduled delivery of messages Often, a need exists to schedule the sending of a message to an Continue Reading

Understanding Akka Actor Lifecycle

November 8, 2020November 8, 2020Akka, Lightbend, ScalaLightbend CoE

Reading Time: 3 minutes So, here is a glimpse of how an Akka Actor Lifecycle works. The actor lifecycle begins as soon as the actor is created. The stages of an Akka Actor Lifecycle are as follows – preStart() Start Stop postStop() terminated Starting Actors Creating an actor automatically starts it. A started actor is fully operable. We can start an Actor with a preStart() hook. And for more Continue Reading