Reading Time: 4 minutes Akka dispatchers are extremely important in Akka framework. They are directly responsible for optimal performance, throughput and scalability. Akka supports dispatchers for both event-driven lightweight threads and thread-based Actors. For thread-based Actors each dispatcher is bound to a dedicated OS thread. Default dispatcher is a single event-based dispatcher for all Actors created. The dispatcher used is this one: Dispatchers.globalExecutorBasedEventDrivenDispatcher For many cases it becomes mandatory Continue Reading

Reading Time: 4 minutes We are building a concurrent and massively scalable system using Akka framework. Akka uses light-weight Actor paradigm of managing concurrency. Most of the times a bunch of Akka actors are required for a common functionality; therefore we do tend to manage them as a group. This is where Akka Supervisor comes into the picture. Akka Supervisors are responsible for starting, stopping and monitoring child Akka Continue Reading