[akka-user] Re: Best way to handle large response from Actor

2017-04-27 Thread Sumanta Dutta
Thanks for all your suggestions. We are most likely going to send the notification in message and data will be transferred using MongoDB. We wanted to avoid another query on the receiving end, but looks like that's the best way to go for now. On Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 11:04:57 AM UTC-4, Ry

[akka-user] Re: Best way to handle large response from Actor

2017-04-27 Thread 'Ryan Tanner' via Akka User List
Two possibilities: 1. Go out-of-band and drop down to Http using, say, Netty. Flink does this (it uses Akka remoting for command-and-control but transmits data using Netty). 2. Stick the files on a blob store like S3 and just send messages telling the other actor a file is available (or whate