December 2011
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Benchmark: Akka vs Erlang
Franz Bettag have written up a small post about a benchmark between Akka and Erlang.
Interesting results. On his hardware and specific benchmark Erlang R14B04 did 1 million messages per second while Akka 2.0-SNAPSHOT did 2.1 million per second.
Read more here: http://uberblo.gs/2011/12/scala-akka-and-erlang-actor-benchmarks
…and we still have a lot more performance to squeeze out of Akka.
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Location Transparency: Remoting in Akka 2.0
The remoting capabilities of Akka 2.0 are really powerful. Something that not has been as powerful is the documentation of the Akka remoting. We are constantly striving on improving it and this blog post will, hopefully, shed some light on the topic. The remoting contains functionality not only to lookup a remote actor and send messages to it but also to deploy actors on remote nodes. These two...
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Running Akka on ARM7 with 100 requests per second
@honzam399 writes:
“#Akka on ARM7 board, processing 100 simple REST requests/s at 5 V, 500 mA!”
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Akka Team Blog Is Live
Stay tuned for more soon… :-P