Akka Streams may alleviate the scale issues some, but I doubt they will 
solve it completely. I still would prefer to be able to use routers since I 
can play with number of instances, use pinned dispatcher for slow actors 
etc.



On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 11:53:49 AM UTC-4, drewhk wrote:
>
> This looks like where Akka Streams might be a better fit? See this chapter 
> in the streams docs: 
> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.4/scala/stream/stream-parallelism.html
>
> -Endre
>
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Mark Kaberman <mkab...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> In my case single actor may not be fast enough. My actors sometimes deal 
>> with fairly large latencies depending where in the path they are. To expand 
>> on my example it is possible that actor 2 does not receive many messages 
>> from actor1 and capable of processing them quickly, but it receives large 
>> amount of messages from actor3 and could experience delays in REST 
>> responses. That's why I would prefer to tweak the routers between each (or 
>> some) hops.
>>
>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 10:59:39 AM UTC-4, rkuhn wrote:
>>>
>>> Why do you conflate the route structure (i.e. the routing hops) with the 
>>> supervisor hierarchy? This is usually a bad idea. Instead, create your 
>>> three actors as children of a supervisor that introduces them to one 
>>> another—and only introduce Routers once you have benchmarked that a single 
>>> actor is not fast enough.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Roland
>>>
>>> 19 aug. 2016 kl. 16:23 skrev Mark Kaberman <mkab...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Actually I only need 3 entry instead of 5 and I need to name my routers 
>>> differently:
>>> /actor1/router1/
>>> /actor1/router1/actor2/router2
>>> /actor1/router1/actor3/router2
>>>
>>> but the point is still valid: I need to accommodate for all possible 
>>> path permutations in my routers definition.
>>>
>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 10:00:21 AM UTC-4, Mark Kaberman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> When I define a router in Akka's application.conf I always need to 
>>>> specify the router path. If I have multiple possible routes the messages 
>>>> travel in my application  the configuration file may become very 
>>>> complicated. An example: I have three actors in my system: actor1, actor 2 
>>>> and actor3. Actor1 can send messages to 2 and 3. Actor 2 can send messages 
>>>> to 3 and actor 3 to 1. My understanding it (and I may be completely wrong 
>>>> here) that I need to define 4 routers in my application.conf to 
>>>> accommodate 
>>>> for all paths:
>>>>
>>>> /actor1/router/actor2
>>>> /actor1/router/actor3
>>>> /actor1/router/actor2/router/actor3
>>>> /actor1/router/actor3/router/actor1
>>>>
>>>> That will make my config file complex since I need to take into account 
>>>> all possible path permutation. I can use a wildcard in order to avoid 
>>>> specifying an actor name, but the number of elements in the path seems to 
>>>> have to match the actual number of hops. Is there a way to define default 
>>>> router(s) in order to avoid overly complex configuration file?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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