This post presents an example of how to tune an Akka application. The first section presents the application (actually, a simple microservice) that will be used along this post to illustrate the tuning process. The second section describes the load tests and tools that will be used to measure the application performance. Next section presents different test scenarios …
Unveiling blocking operations
Background Developing an application following the reactive principles can be quite challenging, specially when working with third party libraries, as these may not be fit for purpose, i.e. blocking operations. In such cases, the first challenge is to find the blocking operation and the second to confine it so that it does not affect the rest of the …