Hi,

We're writing a system that has 2 components: 1 that generates a 
(persistent) stream of events, and another that subscribes to the stream 
and processes the events. We want to use akka-persistence but there are 
some things we're not quite sure about.

The current design uses a persistence-query on the subscriber side to 
process the events, and have PersistentActors on the producer side persist 
events. However, since the produces is stateless, we don't need the 
recovery (and in fact we don't want it, because it could be very 
time-consuming).
We've considered a few solutions to this:

   - Generate empty snapshots periodically so recovery can be quick. This 
   works, but is a little ugly, and we'd prefer a cleaner solution.
   - Write the events directly to Cassandra. This would mean no recovery 
   for actors (and possibly no actors at all), but we'd have to modify the 
   code any time the persistence plugin changes the format it uses to save 
   events.
   - Use some Akka API to persist the events, without having any actors 
   involved. This seems like a good idea, but we couldn't find any such API... 
   (Maybe something with Persistence.journalFor? Seems like that's intended 
   more for internal use)

I would love to hear if there is such an API that could help us, or if you 
think we're "doing something wrong".

Thanks,
Tal

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