alpakka

Introduction to Alpakka DynamoDB

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

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

Knolx: Alpakka-Connecting Kafka & ElasticSearch to Akka Streams

Reading Time: < 1 minute Hi all, Knoldus has organized a 30 min session on 1st  March 2019 at 3:30 PM. The topic was Alpakka – Connecting Kafka and ElasticSearch to Akka Streams.  Many people have joined and enjoyed the session. I am going to share the slides here. Please let me know if you have any question related to linked slides or video. The slides of the KnolX are here: And Continue Reading

Alpakka – Connecting Kafka and ElasticSearch to Akka streams

Reading Time: 4 minutes In our previous blog, we had a look at what Akka streams are and how they are different from the other streaming mechanisms we have. In this blog, we will be taking a little step forward into the world of Akka Streams. In order to work with Akka streams, we need a mechanism to connect Akka Streams to the existing system components. That is where Alpakka Continue Reading

Stream a file to AWS S3 using Akka Streams (via Alpakka) in Play Framework

Reading Time: 5 minutes In this blog post we’ll see how a file can be streamed from a client (eg: browser) to Amazon S3 (AWS S3) using Alpakka’s AWS S3 connector. Aplakka provides various Akka Stream connectors, integration patterns and data transformations for integration use cases. The example in this blog post uses Play Framework to provide a user interface to submit a file from a web page directly to Continue Reading