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Actor based parallelism using Scala and Akka : Part 2

Dispatchers in Akka Dispatchers are used to control the flow of execution in Akka - they can control how messages are being sent, delivered, received and processed. Based on the dispatching policy, dispatchers will route the incoming message to respe...

Actor based parallelism using Scala and Akka : Part 1

Threads and locks are popular programming constructs because they tend to mimic what the underlying hardware does. However, use of threads and low level concurrency features require developers to have in-depth knowledge of memory model and often inner ...