JVM Languages
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Non-blocking I/O – discovering Akka
Here comes the time to follow some good practices when implementing actors. One of the most important rules we should…
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Two actors – discovering Akka
Hope you are having fun so far, but our application has serious performance defect. After measuring response times of the…
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Remote actors – discovering Akka
Assume our test application became a huge success and slowly a single server is not capable of handling growing traffic.…
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Iteratees for imperative programmers
When I first heard the word iteratee, I thought it was a joke. Turns out, it wasn’t a joke, in…
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Benchmarking Scala against Java
A question recently came up at work about benchmarks between Java and Scala. Maybe you came across my blog post…
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become/unbecome – discovering Akka
Sometimes our actor needs to react differently based on its internal state. Typically receiving some specific message causes the state…
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Request and response – discovering Akka
In the previous part we implemented our first actor and sent message to it. Unfortunately actor was incapable of returning…
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Grails SQL Logging part 2 – groovy.sql.Sql
I discussed options for logging Hibernate-generated SQL in an earlier post but today I was trying to figure out how to…
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Your first message – discovering Akka
Akka is a platform (framework?) inspired by Erlang, promising easier development of scalable, multi-threaded and safe applications. While in most…
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