> > sorry it took my a while to get to this email - been consuming the "least > responded / oldest" email from the list throughout the week, not sure it > this worked well or not yet... :-) > no problem, it's open-source, no SLAs ;)
> By the way - isn't dropping demand messages a problem also in the current >>> remote-streams implementation? >>> >> There is no remote akka streams yet. > If you mean tcp then the demand is just generated "by the socket" - not > through passing tokens over the network. > ah I see, turns out I should have studied the code carefully (and TCP as well probably ;) ) > Right, well, originally I was wondering if Akka could replace >>> Kafka+Zookeeper's message streams (which can be used to implement the >>> scenario above: where there's a pool of producers, and a pool of consumers, >>> all potentially on different hosts, and using Kafka they can stream >>> messages reliably). With Kafka's delivery methods you bind each consumer to >>> a number of partitions, so it would be as you describe, kind of >>> point-to-point streams, which get re-balanced when a node goes down. >>> >> Going this route, there could be a cluster-singleton service which >>> assigns B-actors to A-actors, and creates streams between those two. These >>> could be the "reactive message streams" from above. And to solve the >>> demand-splitting problem (when a B has two As assigned), there could be >>> simply more consumer-actors then producer-actors. >>> >> This sounds like a very interesting use case. > Would be awesome if you could tinker around it. > Random fact is that Kafka is *so much used everywhere* that it definitely > would find users/contributors I think :-) > great, always good to validate ideas :) thanks, Adam -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
