Reading Time: 2 minutes Kalix is a PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) which makes it easy for developers to build high-performance and data-centric applications at a low cost. Now, the question arises, why should we use it. How is it different from others? Now, let us understand the key benefits of using Kalix. Key Features It is less in many ways. As we all know less is more. This is the approach. It is – Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes Before diving into gRPC descriptors and it’s implementation in kalix let’s get a brief understanding of gRPC so, What is gRPC? gRPC is an open-source Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework developed by Google. It’s modern, fast, efficient, and built on top of HTTP/2, low latency supports streaming, is language-independent, and makes it super easy to plug in authentication, load balancing, logging, and monitoring. Now the Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes First, Let’s get to know what Kalix is then we will see what an entity Is and what Its type is. Notes: All the codes in the blog are written in Scala. Kalix is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that combines an API-first, database-less programming model with a serverless runtime. Now what It means is that Kalix is a service that makes It easy for developers to Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Introduction Lightbend, the company behind Akka, recently released a new platform Kalix. In this blog, we will see what Kalix and the advantages it offers over the existing systems, and how it will help developers and companies alike. This is an introductory blog and is aimed at developers who are just starting out in their careers and are interested in exploring the latest technologies. What Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes What is an event sourced entity? Before understanding event sourced entity, let’s first understand a few terminologies: Entity – An entity is any singular, identifiable and separate object. Command – Command is an instruction which a user gives to a computer or a program to perform a specific task. State – The state of a program is its condition regarding stored inputs. The term “state” is similarly Continue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutes As we all know, Event Sourcing is a practical approach to design a service that reliably/atomically updates the database and transmits messages/events. But before I tell you how to do it with KALIX, let me give you a little overview of KALIX. Kalix Introduction Kalix is a considerable improvement over the existing serverless model in terms of abstraction of complexity. As it provides a unifying Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes Lightbend, comes with the new product that will meet the current developer problems and reduce the efforts while coding. Kalix.io comes with the advanced features that will compete the feature problems we face while developing Applications. Kalix combines the scalability and cost benefits of serverless infrastructure with the data management and responsiveness of stateful services. This adds up to one managed, cloud-based environment. By bringing Server, Continue Reading
