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http4s – Dig Deeper

Reading Time: 3 minutes Our previous blog on http4s gives us an introduction to the library to create HTTP routes, servers and clients. Using the library’s support for various libraries like Ember, Blaze, we can create any type of server and/or client. The library also provides for other libraries for easy encoding/decoding of request and response body using circe, scala-xml, and fs2-data. Ultimately, the heart of the library lies Continue Reading

Akka HTTP vs Other REST API Tools

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hi Folks ! Lately there have been a lot of tools that allow us to build rest APIs like the following : Akka Http Play Scalatra http4s Finch Spray In my blog today, I will be discussing Akka Http and its counterparts(competitors) in terms of their advantages, disadvantages, performance and use cases. Let us begin comparsion of Akka-Http with Scalatra. Scalatra is a thread based,it Continue Reading