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title, ring, quadrant
| title | ring | quadrant |
|---|---|---|
| Akka Streams | assess | languages-and-frameworks |
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 piece and only keeping as much of the data in-process as can currently be handled.
Akka Streams is a Reactive Streams 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 other Reactive Streams implementations.
Our first trials with Akka Streams were promising but we have not implemented more complex services with it.
We will continue looking into it together with the Alpakka Connectors for integration work.