Author Archives: Jan Machacek

Techmesh 2012 slides

December 6, 2012 by Jan Machacek | , , | Leave a comment

Thanks to everyone who turned up for my talk at Techmesh 2012; the slides are available to download as PDF and the code will make its way to my Akka Patterns project on GitHub over the next few days. Thank … Read more →

Christmas Cake pattern

December 6, 2012 by Jan Machacek | , | 6 Comments

I had a lot of questions yesterday about the use of the cake pattern. (No, we have not invented it; we started Cake Solutions 12 years ago, long before Scala.) Let me explain the differences between the cake pattern, traditional … Read more →

Spray JSON and ADTs

November 30, 2012 by Jan Machacek | , , , | 1 Comment

In this post, I’ll show you how to serialize (and deserialize) complex hierarchies of objects in Spray JSON. We’ll be dealing with ever so slightly complex tree structure. You’ll find out how to go beyond the JsonFormat[A] instances you get … Read more →

Scalax talk

November 20, 2012 by Jan Machacek | , , , | Leave a comment

For anyone who liked my talk at the Scala eXchange yesterday, you can get your hands on the slides PDF here; the code is at my GitHub at https://github.com/janm399.

Maven, SBT and modularisation

November 20, 2012 by Jan Machacek | , , , | Leave a comment

Let me revisit the Maven to SBT post, and expand on the modularisation of Akka applications. I will also outline the Akka AMQP addition, which allows you to use AMQP brokers like my favourite RabbitMQ in your Akka applications. Again, … Read more →