Akka team plan 2020-04-27

[patriknw]

3 weeks
Start: 2020-04-27
End: 2020-05-15

Previous sprint: #132

Akka Persistence

• Complete new Akka Persistence plugin for Spanner
  • https://github.com/akka/akka-persistence-spanner/projects/2
• EventSourcedBehaviorTestKit Synchronous test driver for Typed EventSourcedBehavior akka#23712
• Release akka-persistence-cassandra 1.0.0, after Alpakka 2.0.0
• Release akka-persistence-jdbc 4.0.0

Akka Projections

• Tasks from https://github.com/akka/akka-projection/projects/1
  • Kafka
  • Running in Cluster
  • Basic documentation with examples
  • Telemetry SPI for Projections
• Publish milestone at end of sprint

Cluster Sharding (after Spanner if time permits)

• Improved remember entities https://github.com/akka/akka/projects/8

Akka HTTP, gRPC

• HTTP 10.2.0 tasks Akka HTTP 10.2 plans akka-http#2970
  • release another milestone before 10.2.0-RC1
• Update Cloudstate to gRPC 0.8.4 Update Akka gRPC to 0.8.0 cloudstateio/cloudstate#211
• Investigate changes from gRPC-java library update
• Release gRPC 1.0.0-RC1
• Update Cloudstate to gRPC 1.0.0-RC1

Alpakka & Alpakka Kafka

• Release Alpakka 2.0.0 final!
• Possibly release Alpakka Kafka 2.0.3

Security

• New feature for certificate rotation

Marketing

• Publish Alpakka 2.0 video
• We will not have time to prepare new video in this sprint

Other

• Stop deploying samples to CentralPark
• Quick look at https://www.yugabyte.com

Stretch goals

• Convert the deploy guides to Kubernetes instead of OpenShift (What part of it is useful?)
  • Convert to "Deploying an Akka Cluster on Kubernetes", with some Lagom specific section

Overview of upcoming releases

• Upcoming releases #133

[patriknw]

In addition to checked boxes for completed tasks above also some progress on:

• New feature for certificate rotation
• HTTP 10.2.0 tasks
• Improved remember entities