In this blog post, we will be discussing factory pattern use cases and implementations in Akka to create actors. Factory of Actors As we already know, in order to create an actor, we need to instantiate an object of akka.actor.Props class with all the configurations needed to create…
This blog post is an afterthought of myself working on Akka Schedulers in an official project. The objective here is to convey the challenges that one may face while working with scheduling/rescheduling Akka Schedulers. On this journey of ours to understand scheduling/rescheduling Akka Schedulers, we will be discussing…
TL;DR: https://github.com/iamsmkr/consul-scala-macro-annotations Off lately at my work which currently involves moving our platform code from monolithic to microservices architecture, I have come to realise that there is a lot of boilerplate code that not only needs to be implemented in every other service but also…
In this post we will try to fathom the concepts of covariance and contravariance in bare bones. We won't be discussing the advantages and disadvantages of variance and things like that in this post. You can find better posts online. This post deliberately doesn't discuss real…