Reading Time: 2 minutes As the name suggests ‘dispatch‘ decides when the actor should dispatch a message and when it does not have to. In the situation in which you think that your actor system must get faster but it’s not working as per expectation then dispatchers are the first place, you should look at. It’s up to the Dispatchers to decide when to allow the actor to process Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes Pre-requisite knowledge: Basics of Akka and Actor System. Fun fact: Did you know that ActorSystem has a heart? Well yes, the ActorSystem is considered to have a heart and it is the “Dispatchers”. We will see how, in this blog. In the real world, dispatchers are the communication coordinators responsible for receiving and passing messages. For example, in emergency services like 911, the dispatchers are Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes If we want to transfer the data persisted in your Couchbase to ElasticSearch and use the power of inverted indexing of Elastic Search along with Couchbase. Then we can do this in easy steps. Couchbase provides us a plugin for the Elastic search that makes your ElasticSearch node appear like a Couchbase Server node. After installation you can use the Cross-Datacenter Replication (XDCR) feature of Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes Akka dispatchers plays important role in application performance. After reading this blog you will be able to configure and use different dispatchers for your application. I have tried to make it as simple as possible so that you can easily start working on akka dispatchers. By default akka uses default dispatcher “fork-join-executor” if no configuration is defined for custom dispatchers. To set up a dispatchers Continue Reading
