Streams processing have been around for a while and encompasses a great number of applications:
- HTTP servers handling stream of incoming HTTP requests
- Message streams: Twitter hose, user posts, …
- Time-series messaging: stream from IoT sensors
- Database querying: result set contains a stream of record
- ….
Most interestingly reactive streams have gain traction over the past few years. They bring back-pressure into the game in order to avoid having the destination stream over flooded by messages from the source stream.
This post focuses on AkkaStream, a reactive stream implementation based on Akka actors. Unlike actors which are untyped, AkkaStreams provides type safety at every stage of the stream pipeline and also comes with a nice and fluent API. However the documentation is sometimes lacking or not easy to search when someone needs to implement common patterns. This post tries to cover the most common ones in a clear and concise way. Continue reading “Akka Streams patterns”