From 751a10f1af6f4a321893c90891f4f1823fc17148 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Roland Edwards, AOE GmbH" <39269273+raedwards@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 14:33:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update akka-streams.md --- radar/2017-10-01/akka-streams.md | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/radar/2017-10-01/akka-streams.md b/radar/2017-10-01/akka-streams.md index d5a7865..b148e6c 100644 --- a/radar/2017-10-01/akka-streams.md +++ b/radar/2017-10-01/akka-streams.md @@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ quadrant: languages-and-frameworks --- -In our backend services we frequently encounter the task to transform data +In our backend services, we frequently encounter the task to transform data coming from and uploading to external sources and services. Building more complex data transformation processes with Akka Actors has proven very difficult for us in the past. -Seeing this data as a stream of elements could allow to handle them piece by +Seeing this data as a stream of elements could allow handling them piece by piece and only keeping as much of the data in-process as can currently be handled. @@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ a [Reactive Streams](http://www.reactive-streams.org/) implementation that provides a very end-user friendly API for setting up streams for data processing that are bounded in resource usage and efficient. It uses the Akka Actor Framework to execute these streams in an asynchronous and parallel -fashion exploiting todays multi-core architectures without having the user to -interact with Actors directly. It handles things like message resending in -failure cases and preventing message overflow. It is also interoparable with +fashion exploiting today's multi-core architectures without having the user to +interact with Actors directly. It handles things such as message resending in +failure cases and preventing message overflow. It is also interoperable with other Reactive Streams implementations. -Our first trials with Akka Streams were promising but we have not implemented -more complex services with it. +Our first trials with Akka Streams were promising but we haven't yet implemented +complex services with it. We will continue looking into it together with the [Alpakka](/languages-and-frameworks/alpakka.html) Connectors for integration