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Backpressure in Akka Streams

Reading Time: 4 minutes “Reactive Streams”, whenever we come across these words, there are two things that come to our mind. The first is asynchronous stream processing and the second is non-blocking backpressure. In this blog, we are going to learn about the latter part. Understanding back pressure According to the English dictionary, back pressure means “Resistance or force opposing the desired flow of fluid through pipes”. To define Continue Reading

Message Broker in Lagom using Kafka

Reading Time: 2 minutes What is Lagom? Lagom framework helps in simplifying the development of microservices by providing an integrated development environment. This benefits one by allowing them to focus on solving business problems instead of wiring services together. Lagom exposes two APIs, Java and Scala, and provides a framework and development environment as a set of libraries and build tool plugins. The supported build tools with Lagom are Maven Continue Reading