Re: [akka-user][deprecated] Akka HTTP for microservice orchestration?

2018-04-13 Thread Marc Schlegel
Great. Thanks everyone. Am Freitag, 13. April 2018 14:37:01 UTC+2 schrieb Konrad Malawski: > > Just to confirm > > > 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 direct

Re: [akka-user][deprecated] Akka HTTP for microservice orchestration?

2018-04-13 Thread Konrad “ktoso” Malawski
Just to confirm > 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. Perhaps it was talking about Akka *actor* messaging — which yes indee

Re: [akka-user][deprecated] Akka HTTP for microservice orchestration?

2018-04-13 Thread Alan Burlison
On 13/04/18 12:28, Marc Schlegel wrote: 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. I don't believe so, I've used it to implemen

Re: [akka-user][deprecated] Akka HTTP for microservice orchestration?

2018-04-13 Thread Alan Burlison
On 13/04/18 11:16, Marc Schlegel wrote: 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 Akk

Re: [akka-user][deprecated] Akka HTTP for microservice orchestration?

2018-04-13 Thread Marc Schlegel
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

Re: [akka-user][deprecated] Akka HTTP for microservice orchestration?

2018-04-13 Thread 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

[akka-user][deprecated] Akka HTTP for microservice orchestration?

2018-04-13 Thread Marc Schlegel
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 solut