akka-http

Server APIs using Akka HTTP

Reading Time: 3 minutes In this blog, we will be learning to integrate HTTP in our application using Akka HTTP. Basically, we will get to know what Akka HTTP is, what are Low Level and High level server APIs, and how to set HTTPS, etc. So, lets get started. What is Akka HTTP? First of all, the Akka HTTP is not a framework, but it is a suite of Continue Reading

Complete CI/CD Pipeline For MicroService Using Akka Http And BitBucket

Reading Time: 4 minutes In this blog, we will see how to set up a Bit-Bucket Pipeline to get CI/CD for your Akka HTTP Application. We will be deploying the application on the HEROKU server, but in this blog, we will also see how to dockerize the application and push the image on Docker Hub which further can be used to deploy on any container orchestration platform. Let’s get Continue Reading

Build your first API with Scala and Akka HTTP

Reading Time: 3 minutes Akka is a free and open-source toolkit and runtime simplifying the construction of concurrent and distributed applications on the JVM. It is built by Lightbend. Akka supports multiple programming models for concurrency, but it prefers actor-based concurrency. One can integrate this library into any JVM support language. It implements Actor Based Model. The Actor Model provides a higher level of abstraction for writing concurrent and Continue Reading

Introduction to Akka Http

Reading Time: 2 minutes Akka Http The Akka HTTP modules implement a full server- and client-side HTTP stack on top of akka-actor and akka-stream. You can read more in-depth about akka-http from here. Here, we are going to use Intellij for the project setup and Scala as a programming language. The steps are as follows:- 1. Importing library dependencies 2. Creating User case class We are going to create Continue Reading

Akka: A modern need

Reading Time: 3 minutes There has been some time since the Akka has been in news and there is some reason for being so. But before moving to those key points, let’s revise/understand what Akka actually is?

Authorization using JWT

Reading Time: 3 minutes In this blog, we will discuss how to implement Akka HTTP authorization using JWT. So first let’s see what is JWT. What is JWT JSON Web Token (JWT) defines a compact and self-contained way for securely transmitting information between parties as a JSON object. The token is mainly composed of header, payload, signature. These three parts are separated by dots(.). The header contains a hashing Continue Reading

Rejection In The Akka HTTP: Let’s handle errors scenarios more properly

Reading Time: 4 minutes Hello folks, in this blog we will see Rejection in the Akka HTTP and how it helps in handling errors scenarios in our Application. Rejection concept in Akka HTTP helps to deal with errors scenarios more properly. When a filtering directive, like the get directive. It does not allow the request to pass through its inner route . As the filter condition is not satisfy, Continue Reading

Marshalling/Unmarshalling in Akka HTTP

Reading Time: 4 minutes In this blog we are going to discuss about Marshalling/Unmarshalling in Akka HTTP. Before discussing it lets have a look at Akka HTTP. Akka HTTP  offers a toolkit for providing and consuming HTTP-based services. The Akka HTTP modules implement a full server- and client-side HTTP. It provides client-side and server-side API to send HTTP requests and HTTP responses.To transfer data over the network, we need Continue Reading

Getting Started With Akka Http Cache

Reading Time: 3 minutes To build a rest point application, there are many options available like Akka Http, Finagle, Play Framework, Lagom etc. In our project, we are using Akka HTTP for building rest applications. We have lots of requests related to analytics. There are many requests which are very expensive. So, we faced an issue where our application was taking time to respond to some analytics. We have Continue Reading

Trying to use form field and file upload directive together in Akka-Http?

Reading Time: 2 minutes If you are reading this then probably you have encountered the issue that comes while accessing fields with uploading a file, and if not then let me first tell you what’s the situation that I’m talking about here, Let’s see the code where we try to use fileUpload directive and formFields together

Store Semantic Web Triples into Cassandra

Reading Time: 2 minutes The semantic web is the next level of  Web Searching where data is more important and it should be well defined. The semantic web is needed for making the web search more intelligent and intuitive to get the user’s requirement. You all can find some interesting point on the Semantic Web here. Triples is an atomic entity in RDF. It is composed of subject-predicate-object. It Continue Reading

Routing DSL in Akka HTTP

Reading Time: 3 minutes In this blog we’ll be discussing about the Routing DSl provided by Akka HTTP High level Server Side API. Akka HTTP provides a very flexible “Routing DSL” for elegantly defining RESTful web services. It picks up where the low-level API leaves off and offers much of the higher level functionality of typical web servers or frameworks, like deconstruction of URIs, content negotiation or static content serving. Continue Reading