Protobuf Serialization in Akka
Reading Time: 4 minutes Before Protobuf, lets have a look at what role does serialization play in Akka. The messages that Akka actors send to each other are JVM objects (e.g. instances of Scala case classes). Message passing between actors that live on the same JVM is straightforward. It is simply done via reference passing. However, messages that have to escape the JVM to reach an actor running on Continue Reading