Akka
HTTP
Play
Framework
Vs.
DAWN OF REST APIs
Building REST APIs
- Defining routes
- Handling request and responses
- Marshalling and unmarshalling
- Authentication and Authorization
- Handling errors
- Streaming
- Type Safety
Design considerations:
Perfomance considerations:
- Response times
- Resilience under stress
Scala ecosystem
What is Akka HTTP?
- Focused on building integration layers based on HTTP.
- Designed specifically as “not-a-framework”, but rather a suite of libraries.
Full server- and client-side HTTP stack on top of akka-actor and akka-stream
What is Play Framework?
- Integrates the components and APIs needed for modern web application development.
- Based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture focused on building highly-scalable applications.
High-productivity Java and Scala web application framework
Architecture
Akka HTTP Server
Netty Server
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.
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- Domain
- Services (as Akka actors)
- Persistence (in memory)
Core
REST API
with
Akka HTTP
REST API
with
Play Framework