Akka Actors vs Streams for Rest APIs

A comparison of use cases for Spray IO (on Akka Actors) and Akka Http (on Akka Streams) for creating rest APIs

This repo has code meant for this blog post.

Build this repo

This has two projects. One using Spray IO and another using Akka Http. Both needs to be built individually, and can be done using the following:

sbt package

To edit the code / run, load the desired project in IntelliJ and run the appropriate object with a main method.

This is not readily packaged to be deployed in the cloud or things like that. This is only meant for learning and understanding of the frameworks underneath.