Logback is the successor of Log4j and is one of the better logging frameworks around. In this post, we would quickly see how to set it up on a Scala project and how to start using it.

Akka framework supports ZeroMQ in its ZeroMQ extensions module. Akka is a great framework and we have our product built on its version 1.3x. We were looking at ZeroMQ support in our product and we stumbled on this issue. We found that ZeroMQ applications built…

Apache Nutch, is an open source web search project. One of the interesting things that it can be used for is a crawler. The interesting thing about Nutch is that it provides several extension points through which we can plugin our custom…

We needed to handle large data files reaching size Gigabytes in scala based Akka application of ours. We are interested in reading data from the file and then operating on it. In our application a single line in a file forms a unit of data to be…