This is an overview of articles I wrote over the years, presently with a strong focus on building reactive systems with Akka. You can also see all articles.
Featured
- 10000 nodes and beyond with Akka Cluster and Rapid
- One step closer: exploiting locality in Akka Cluster based systems
- Akka Raspberry PI demos
- A new adaptive accrual failure detector for Akka
Tour of Temporal
Tour of Akka Typed
- Part 1: Protocols and Behaviors
- Part 2: Message adapters, ask pattern and actor discovery
- Part 3: Supervision and signals
- Part 4: Event Sourcing
- Part 5: Cluster Sharding
- Part 6: Cluster Singleton and Routers
Tour of Akka Cluster
- Part 1: Akka Distributed Data
- Part 2: Eventual consistency, persistent actors, message delivery semantics
- Part 3: Cluster Sharding
- Part 4: Testing with the multi-node-testkit and a handful Raspberry PIs
Tour of Lagom
Akka anti-patterns {#h-akka-anti-patterns}
Basics
- Shared mutable state
- Blocking
- Flat actor hierarchies / Mixing business logic and failure handling
- Race conditions
- Stateless actors
- Too many actors
Performance
- Logging the wrong way
- Being out of touch with the hardware
- Overusing ActorSelection
- Using Java Serialization
Network / Cluster
- Using remoting
- Trusting the network
- Always using the defaults (to be written)
- Using cluster without / with the wrong split-brain resolver (to be written)
Architecture / Design
- Not defining a protocol (to be written)
- Naming your application components after akka concepts
- Too many actor systems
- Blindly ignoring dead letters (to be written)
Akka
- Raspberry PI Akka Cluster LED strips
- Akka Cluster, Java and the Raspberry PI 3 Model B
- Akka Streams – What is NotUsed all about
- A handful Akka techniques
Scala
- Optimizing CI build times for Scala projects
- A quick tour of build tools in Scala
- A quick tour of JSON libraries in Scala
- A quick tour of relational database access with Scala
- 5 years of Scala and counting – debunking some myths about the language and its environment
Play Framework
- Reactive Golf or Iteratees and all that stuff in practice, part 1
- Reactive Golf or Iteratees and all that stuff in practice, part 2
- Reactive Golf or Iteratees and all that stuff in practice, part 3
- Tips & tricks for setting up a Play 2 project
- How to read the Play session from AngularJS
- CRUD trait for Slick models in the Play! framework
- Quickly open errors in your IDE when developing Play applications
- Multi-modular development with Play 2.1
- Activating logging in test mode in Play 2.0.x
- MongoDB-based Cache for Play 1.2.x and Play-Scala
- Play! Scala and JSON
- Selenium IDE plugin for the Play! framework
Reactive Database Access
- Part 1: Why Reactive, why “Async” & an introduction to Futures
- Part 2: Introduction to Actors
- Part 3: Using jOOQ with Scala, Futures and Actors