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Alpakka : Creating Data Pipelines

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

Streaming data from Cassandra using Alpakka

Reading Time: 7 minutes Alpakka project is an open-source initiative to implement stream aware and reactive pipelines using Java and Scala which is built on top of Akka streams and specially designed to provide a DSL for reactive and stream-oriented programming with built-in support for backpressure to avoid the flood of data. As a reference, Akka streams supports reactive streams and JDK 9+ compliant implementation and therefore fully interoperable Continue Reading