[akka-user] akka-http vs Spray on a performance point of view (requests per second)

2015-02-17 Thread Jean Rossier
Hello, I'm would like to build a web server to handle a high load of requests (many thousands per seconds). I'm trying to figure out if akka-http is a good candidate for that. At first sight, I would guess so since it comes from Spray which definitely offers good performance under high load.

Re: [akka-user] Akka HTTP - back-pressure on incoming connections

2015-01-28 Thread Jean Rossier
this (or an equivalent solution) with Akka HTTP; this is one of the joys of using development previews :-) But thanks for reporting in any case! Regards, Roland 26 jan 2015 kl. 10:04 skrev Jean Rossier jean.r...@gmail.com javascript:: I would have expected some failed requests. In my

Re: [akka-user] Akka HTTP - back-pressure on incoming connections

2015-01-26 Thread Jean Rossier
requests are replied sucessfully. I thought OverflowStrategy.dropTail would drop the incoming requests when the buffer is full. Jean On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 9:38:36 AM UTC+1, drewhk wrote: Hi Jean, On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Jean Rossier jean.r...@gmail.com javascript: wrote

[akka-user] Akka HTTP - back-pressure on incoming connections

2015-01-26 Thread Jean Rossier
Hello, I'm wondering if there is a way to use back-pressure mechanism on incoming connections with Akka HTTP ? The documentation mentions clearly that there is no back-pressure applied to the connections Source if we use the startHandlingWith* functions