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Hello Akka community, | |
I am currently writting my bachelor thesis "Comparison of Concurrency Frameworks for the JVM" | |
at the university of ulm in Germany. Since one qualitative property of an framework is also its | |
community and support I decided to check that by myself by asking this questions. This Gist repo | |
is thought to gather your ideas and oppinions about Akka relating to the questions below in oder | |
to improve my comparison. Feel free to answer as controversial as you want :). Just add the points | |
you miss. Thank you very much. | |
1. Why do you prefer Akka over other frameworks such as Gpars? | |
- I prefer Scala over Groovy. | |
- Customizable supervision behavior. ("Let it crash") | |
- I haven't looked at Gpars much, but Akka seems to be very elaborate. | |
2. In which uses cases or type of use cases did you use Akka? | |
- Server application for document management and digital preservation with a client application that can connect to it. | |
- REST and Websocket application (on top of Socko). | |
3. In which use cases is Akka especially good ? | |
- Distributing tasks over mutiple worker instances (over a network). | |
- Bringing simple asynchronousity to the JVM through futures. | |
- Error handling. | |
4. In which use cases is Akka not the best choice relating to performance or even feasibility? | |
- None yet. | |
5. What features do you miss about Akka? (e.g. special development tools, further concepts, | |
language support etc.) | |
- None. | |
6. The next question can only be answered by the developers of Akka. What does the Future of | |
Akka will look like?(actual plans, ideals.... ) | |
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