Yeah microservices and orchestration are bloody buzzwords :-) As said, my sample is rather simple, but it should be enough to experience the pain-points of microservices (distributed systems). And instead of having my services communicate directly to each other they just raise events which get send to the orchestration-service which will also be implemented in several styles (Akka and the other planned solution is BPMN saga with Camunda). Once those are done, I am planning to implement everything using plain Akka (each service its own actor-system) to get a comparison.
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Thanks for your confirmation. I thought that I read somewhere that Akka Http was only intended for internal communication within actor-systems and it should not be used directly...but obviously I was mistaken. Am Freitag, 13. April 2018 12:52:54 UTC+2 schrieb Alan Johnson: > > I'm not exactly sure what you mean by an orchestration layer (I've heard a > lot of different schemes called this), especially one that receives events, > because that makes it sound stateful. But Akka HTTP makes a totally > reasonable external API layer, especially for services, as opposed to > rendering content. > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2018, 06:16 Marc Schlegel <masch...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hello everyone >> >> I would like to know if Akka Http is suitable to implement a small >> orchestration layer. >> The idea is to send events from the microservice to the orchestration >> layer (Akka with Akka Http). I think Akka is a nice fit for orchestration >> but I am not sure if Akka Http is the best solution to work with external >> systems. >> >> Note: the events are implemented by Google Protocolbuffers because my >> demo-projects implements the services in several languages (Go, Java, Rust) >> and by using protobuf I can generate consistent DTOs. I've first looked >> into Alpakka but it seems this has a different focus and currently no >> official support for protobuf messages. >> >> regards >> Marc >> >> -- >> >> ***************************************************************************************************** >> ** New discussion forum: https://discuss.akka.io/ replacing akka-user >> google-group soon. >> ** This group will soon be put into read-only mode, and replaced by >> discuss.akka.io >> ** More details: >> https://akka.io/blog/news/2018/03/13/discuss.akka.io-announced >> >> ***************************************************************************************************** >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> 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 akka-user+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to akka...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- ***************************************************************************************************** ** New discussion forum: https://discuss.akka.io/ replacing akka-user google-group soon. ** This group will soon be put into read-only mode, and replaced by discuss.akka.io ** More details: https://akka.io/blog/news/2018/03/13/discuss.akka.io-announced ***************************************************************************************************** >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> 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 akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
