akka – Tarik Billa

When to use Actors vs Futures?

August 24, 2023 by Tarik

There certainly is no shortage of opinion on the topic of what should and shouldn’t be an actor. Like these two posts: http://noelwelsh.com/programming/2013/03/04/why-i-dont-like-akka-actors/ http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/actors_vs_futures.html I don’t think you’re going to find an absolute answer to this question other then that it’s situational and it’s really up to your preferences and your problem. What I can … Read more

How can I have an Akka actor executed every 5 min?

May 31, 2023 by Tarik

You don’t really need an actor to do this in Akka 1.3.1 you can schedule a function to be called every 5 minutes like this: Scheduler.schedule(() => println(“Do something”), 0L, 5L, TimeUnit.MINUTES) However, if you do want it to be an actor for other reasons you would call it like this case class Message() val … Read more