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Enterprise Java
Forcing Tomcat to log through SLF4J/Logback
So you have your executable web application in JAR with bundled Tomcat (make sure to read that one first). However…
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Enterprise Java
Standalone web application with executable Tomcat
When it comes to deploying your application, simplicity is the biggest advantage. You’ll understand that especially when project evolves and…
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Scala
Parallelization of a simple use case explained
Some time ago a friend of mine asked me about the possibilities of speeding up the following process: they are…
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Scala
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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Scala
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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Scala
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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Scala
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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Scala
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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Scala
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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