Greg, exactly. I think Akka Persistence having such capabilities would make it even more awesome and useful. Thanks for chiming in, your opinion on this is very much appreciated.
Ashley, thanks for the kind words. Glad to learn that my worries are not completely mental and just my own nitpicking :) On Saturday, July 26, 2014 5:03:13 PM UTC+1, Greg Young wrote: > > I think whats being missed here is that Event Store doesn't only support > this on a single stream/topic. > > Its very useful when building read models as example to be able to read > events from many streams (or all streams) joined in a way that gives global > ordering (if on a single replication group) or deterministic ordering > (historical) if on multiple replication groups. > > As example you can imagine when writing you have 500,000 streams (one per > inventory item). > When building a projection you are interested in 5 event types: > > InventoryItemCreated > InventoryItemAuditted > InventoryItemRenamed > InventoryCheckedIn > InvnetoryCheckedOut > > Regardless of the initial stream they were written to. This is very common > in these types of systems. > > Cheers, > > Greg > > On Friday, July 25, 2014 7:20:02 PM UTC+3, Konrad Malawski wrote: >> >> Hello there, >> Ah, much better when able to communicate in full sentences without 140 >> chars limit! ;-) >> ( https://twitter.com/mrt1nz/status/492676432410447872 ) >> >> So, now that it’s spelled out as full sentences, I’ll gladly dig into >> your points: >> >> 1) >> Has been already* proposed and accepted* in >> https://github.com/akka/akka/issues/15004, >> including your +1, so I guess you’re aware that it’s in our backlog. >> >> The module is experimental and published “early” exactly in order to >> gather, >> and implement these features before stabilising the APIs. >> >> So it’s coming, we simply have not yet gotten to implementing it - it’s >> holiday season, which isn’t helping development speed :-) >> >> 2) >> For the benefit of the discussion, example in EventStore: >> http://geteventstore.com/blog/20130707/catch-up-subscriptions-with-the-event-store/ >> >> One thing to keep in mind here is that some Journals would have no >> problem implementing this, such as Kafka or EventStore - because it’s a >> built in mechanism to “subscribe to something” in them… See Martin’s Kafka >> journal and how one can subscribe to a event stream there: >> https://github.com/krasserm/akka-persistence-kafka#journal-topics On the >> other hand implementing this in other Journals would be pretty painful / >> inefficient (cassandra, hbase, …). >> >> We were playing around with some ideas to expose optional db specific >> journal functionalities. This would be a good candidate for this. >> >> This request seems to depend on these things by the way: >> * changes in the journal plugins (we some changes there anyway >> https://github.com/krasserm/akka-persistence-kafka#journal-topics ), >> * views over “tags" (as this would essentially be a view over “all”), >> * and lastly reactive-streams (views exposed as streams of events). >> >> >> Thanks for your feedback and keep in mind that no-one said that this >> module is “done”. >> It’s still experimental and this kind of feature requests are exacly what >> we need and will have to provide to make it stable and usable in all kinds >> of apps. >> >> Lastly, would you mind creating a ticket for the 2) feature? >> Thanks in advance, have a nice weekend :-) >> >> <https://github.com/akka/akka/issues/15004> >> >> -- >> Konrad 'ktoso' Malawski >> hAkker @ typesafe >> http://akka.io >> > -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
