I was recently working a bit with Twitter’s Storm, and it got me wondering, how does it compare to another high-performance, concurrent-data-processing framework, Akka. What’s Akka and Storm? Let’s start … Continue Reading →
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Implementing factories in Scala & MacWire 0.3
Factories are useful when we need to create multiple instances of a class at run-time, usually providing some parameters, but still without using new explicitly; we want to make some … Continue Reading →
ElasticMQ 0.7.0: long polling, non-blocking implementation using Akka and Spray
ElasticMQ 0.7.0, a message queueing system with an actor-based Scala and Amazon SQS-compatible interfaces, was just released. It is a major rewrite, using Akka actors at the core and Spray … Continue Reading →