Monitoring Akka with Kamon

I like the JVM a lot because there are a lot of tools available for inspecting a running JVM instance at runtime. The Java Mission Control (jmc) is one of my favorite tools, when it comes to monitor threads, hot methods and memory allocation. However these tools are of limited use, when monitoring an event-driven, […]

Akka Cluster with Docker containers

This article will show you how to build docker images that contain a single akka cluster application. You will be able to run multiple seed nodes and multiple cluster nodes. The code can be found on Github and will be available as a Typesafe Activator. If you don’t know docker or akka Docker is the new shiny star […]

Future Composition with Scala and Akka

Future Composition with Scala and Akka Scala is functional and object-oriented language, which runs on the JVM. For concurrent and/or parallel programming it is a suitable choice along with the Akka framework, which provides a rich toolset for all kind of concurrent tasks. In this post I want to show a little example how to […]