Use akka-stream BidiFlows with an IRC client

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

A Gentle Introduction to Akka Streams by Michael Hamrah

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

Creating Reactive Streams components on Akka Streams

Piotr Trzepil recently posted a nice tutorial on creating Reactive Streams Publishers and Subscribers using the Akka provided ActorPublisher and ActorSubscriber classes. Read more here: https://liferepo.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/creating-reactive-streams-components-on.html

Routers and load balancing for building scalable highly available apps revisited

Marek Prochera revisits Akka’s different router configurations and deployment patterns in his latest blog post: Building a scalable and highly available reactive applications with Akka! Load balancing revisited.