Let it crash

Christian Hoffmeister shared an excellent post about using BidiFlow (the best building block available to represent arbitrary protocols in Akka Streams) to communicate with an IRC protocol: Use akka-stream BidiFlows with an IRC client

Tim Harper explores adding acknowledgements to operations for Akka Streams, for his RabbitMQ integration op-rabbit.

Nice introductory blog post on akka-streams by Michael Hamrah - A Gentle introduction to Akka Streams