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Akka Cookbook

You're reading from   Akka Cookbook Recipes for concurrent, fast, and reactive applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785288180
Length 414 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vivek Mishra Vivek Mishra
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Piyush Mishra Piyush Mishra
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Héctor Veiga Ortiz Héctor Veiga Ortiz
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Diving into Akka FREE CHAPTER 2. Supervision and Monitoring 3. Routing Messages 4. Using Futures and Agents 5. Scheduling Actors and Other Utilities 6. Akka Persistence 7. Remoting and Akka Clustering 8. Akka Streams 9. Akka HTTP 10. Understanding Various Akka patterns 11. Microservices with Lagom

Handling failure in event sourcing


Failure is a regular thing in computer science. Systems crash. Hardware stops working. There are always some out-of-control variables that we cannot predict. However, we can assume failure will happen eventually and take some actions to deal with it. Akka persistence was designed to help ease the recovery from a failure when your actors need to maintain a state and cannot simply be restarted to start from fresh. In this recipe, we will review what happens to persistent actors when something goes wrong.

Getting ready

There are no prerequisites for this recipe.

How to do it…

The following scenarios can happen when using event sourcing and persistent actors: 

  • Cannot recover events from the journal: When creating a new persistent actor, the journal might not be available. Therefore, your actor cannot check whether it needs to recover its state. At this point, Akka persistence decides that it cannot continue, executes the onRecoveryFailure callback, and stops the...
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