Reading Time: 3 minutes Akka, a free open source toolkit simplifying the construction of concurrent and distributed system/application. We have already deal with Akka Actors where we learnt about the Akka Actors and their Behaviors. But Actors can be seen dealing with with Sequence of Data where they send or receive series of messages. So, In this blog we discuss Akka Stream in bit detail. What is Akka Streams Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes Overview In this blog, we’ll be understand about akka streams and its components. Also, we’ll do a simple exercise that involves each of these components. Introduction Stream A stream is a flow of data that involves moving and transforming data. An element is the processing unit of the stream. Akka Streams In software development, there can be cases where we need to handle the potentially Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hey folks, let us understand the basics of akka streams. I hope you have a basic understanding of Akka Actor. What is Akka Streams Akka Streams is a library to process and transfer a sequence of elements. It is built on top of Akka Actors to make the ingestion and processing of streams easy. As it is build on top of Akka Actors, it provide Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes “Reactive Streams” — whenever we come across these words, there are two things that come to our mind. The first is asynchronous stream processing, and the second is non-blocking backpressure. In this blog, we are going to learn about the latter part. Understanding Backpressure Very simply put, the idea behind backpressure is the ability to say “hey slow down!”. Let’s start with an example that Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes Scanamo Scanamo is a library to make use of DynamoDB with Scala. In this blog, we are going to work on latest version 1.0.0-M11 So, let’s get it started- 1. Add Library Dependencies: – Setup sbt project and add these library dependencies 2. Setup application.conf: – Create application.conf file and place it inside the src\main\resources\ 3. Create Case Class And DAO: – Create case class Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alpakka DynamoDB This AWS DynamoDB connector provides a flow for streaming DynamoDB requests, using Akka stream and AWS java DynamoDB SDK. And in this blog, we are going to work on version 1.1.2 So, let’s get it started- 1. Add Library Dependencies: – Setup sbt project and add these library dependencies in build.sbt 2. Setup application.conf: – Create application.conf file and place it inside the Continue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes Distributed stream processing engines have been on the rise in the last few years, first Hadoop became popular as a batch processing engine, then focus shifted towards stream processing engines. Stream processing engines can make the job of processing data that comes in via a stream easier than ever before and by using clustering can enable processing data in larger sets in a timely manner. Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes In my previous blogs I discussed about akka-streams , materialization and graphs in akka-stream . It was so easy to create sources, sinks and flows and connect them using methods and create runnable graphs. Now consider a situation where I’m getting data from Kafka and want to push it in Cassandra or Elasticsearch ? How to create such source or flow or sink that can Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes In my previous blogs, I discussed about the basics of akka-streams and materialization. Now let’s dig deeper into Graphs in Akka-Streams. Graphs Till now we know how to create a linear pipeline/linear graph. But in real life scenario we generally don’t have linear graphs to implement. The graphs can be complex. In Akka Streams computation graphs are written in a more graph-resembling DSL. It aims Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes In my previous blog, I discussed about the basics of akka-stream. Basically, it was an introduction to akka-stream to get you started. There I mentioned about materialization which is a really important concept in Akka-Streams. And in this blog I’m going to discuss about it and some related topics in detail. So, let’s begin ! Akka-Streams Basics Let’s revisit the basics first. So, the data Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes As the world is growing, so is the data. And analysis of this data has become important. But how will you do it? How will you work with the data whose size is unknown to you? A solution to this scenario is Akka-Streams and here I’m going to discuss it. In this blog you will get to know the basics of Akka-Streams just to get Continue Reading
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?
Reading Time: 4 minutes “Reactive Streams”, whenever we come across these words, there are two things that come to our mind. The first is asynchronous stream processing and the second is non-blocking backpressure. In this blog, we are going to learn about the latter part. Understanding back pressure According to the English dictionary, back pressure means “Resistance or force opposing the desired flow of fluid through pipes”. To define Continue Reading
