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?
Akka Persistence using MongoDB – Part I
Reading Time: 3 minutes Akka is a powerful actor based tool kit for Concurrency, Parallelism and Clustering. But for every concurrent applications, Akka actors are not fit because Futures are another alternative for performing Concurrency. Most of the developers follow simple rules for using Future and Actors is “Futures for Concurrency, Actors for State“. In concurrent applications most of the time we are facing race conditions and deadlocks. Because Continue Reading
CQRS in a jiffy!
Reading Time: < 1 minute Segregate operations that read data from operations that update data by using separate interfaces. This pattern can maximize performance, scalability, and security; support evolution of the system over time through higher flexibility; and prevent update commands from causing merge conflicts at the domain level. The term sounds heavy, but the concept is not. At least, this is what we discovered at the end of our regular Continue Reading