Hello all! I am thinking of using bounded mailbox as a simple solution to backpressure implementation. My app basically consumes messages from a queue (kafka), unpacks and processes them and sends to HBase storage. The birds-eye overview of the principal actors is:
W - writes to Hbase C - consumes from Kafka and sends to W and a number of processors P1...Pn P1-Pn - do various processing, generating a lot of derived stuff and send all to W so I want to propagate backpressure all the way from W (through P1-Pn, because they are the primary generators of load) to C. Should I or should I not use message timeouts? I don't like the idea that I would have to figure out exactly what message and from what actor timed out - it'll make things too complicated. On the other hand not using timeouts will block actors which is a bad idea. Is it really in this case? I can't see why if the actor has to wait anyway Thanks Vadim -- >>>>>>>>>> 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.
