Custom Akka HTTP PathMatcher
11/07/17
A How-To about the implementation of Custom PathMatchers in Akka HTTP. Read more
Posts about Scala
JWT authentication with Akka HTTP
09/20/17
The authentication of RESTful APIs is quite an often asked question, so I decided to demonstrate basic authentication via JWT (JSON Web Token) in an example of an API built with Akka HTTP. Read more
Lookup additional data in Spark Streaming
07/26/17
Looking up and adding additional data to the incoming stream is a common problem in Spark Streaming. In this post I will show four alternative solutions for this problem. Read more
Gatling Load Testing Part 2 – Extending Gatling
07/12/17
I hope you enjoyed my first article about Gatling. The second one will go much more into detail and involves... Read more
Gatling Load Testing Part 1 – Using Gatling
06/21/17
Gatling is a Scala-based load testing tool developed by the Gatling Corp. The tool itself is open source and can... Read more
Akka Best Practices: Defining Actor Props
In Akka, an application is made up of actors rather than of plain old of objects. This blog post shows best practices when defining Actor Props. Read more
Ad hoc polymorphism in Scala for the mere mortals
02/23/17
In this blog post we are going to discuss ad hoc polymorphism and the Type Class Pattern in Scala in... Read more
Hello gRPC! (with ScalaPB)
gRPC is a modern RPC framework developed by Google focusing on requirements of microservice-oriented systems. Read more
CQRS and ES with Akka
Somewhere back in December 2015 Heiko Seeberger visited us for a Scala training. At the end of the last day... Read more