That's correct - streams are fully typed and we're pretty proud of that :) One difference I'd like to highlight though is that Streams don't directly "replace" Actors. In many cases they do, for local processing pipelines etc. However Streams (any reactive streams implementation in fact) don't solve the distribution aspect – that's where Actors excel at.
By distribution I mean features like Cluster Sharding for example: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/scala.html So all distributed systems bits are still best served by Actors, however all their local bits can often be solved by Streams. Hope this helps. You may also like this talk from Scala Matsuri, where I talk a bit around some of these questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlli4LCLmzM -- Konrad `ktoso` Malawski Akka <http://akka.io> @ Lightbend <http://lightbend.com> On 4 August 2016 at 18:13:48, Mike Khan (mike.k...@hmrc.gov.uk) wrote: Thanks Konrad. I'm looking into using Akka Streams because (correct me if I am wrong) I can achieve a higher level of type safety than using Akka Actors directly. The receive method of an Actor can pretty much take any type which I find worrying. Having looked into Akka Streams I realized that the an equivalent Akka Stream implementation can be designed which is equivalent to the the Akka Actor design in terms of end result. But the beauty with the Akka Stream approach is that I can't just input just any type. I can only input the one that is defined by the source. On Thursday, 4 August 2016 13:57:28 UTC+1, Konrad Malawski wrote: > > Yes, this is the right place. > Announcements are here, as well as general community discussions. > > For news only you may want to subscribe to: akka.io/news > And for blogs from the core team there's akka.io/blog > > -- > Konrad `ktoso` Malawski > Akka <http://akka.io> @ Lightbend <http://lightbend.com> > > On 4 August 2016 at 14:08:45, Mike Khan (mike...@hmrc.gov.uk <javascript:>) > wrote: > > Hi > > Is this the correct channel to stay up to date with Akka Streams? I would > like to keep up to date on the direction and latest changes to the library. > > Mike > -- > >>>>>>>>>> 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+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to akka...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- >>>>>>>>>> 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 https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- >>>>>>>>>> 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 https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
