Chris Loy

[...] I recently found myself attempting to set up an Akka cluster in a EC2 auto-scaling group. I was surprised to find that there is little in the way of [...]

[...] reported to have replied “Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina.” After having finished Tolstoy’s epic tale of love, life and family, it is not [...]

[...] : two months as a vegetarian, following which I would attempt to maintain a strict vegetarian diet for at least five days each week. In the end I decided to stick it out and try to [...]

[...] software are often followed by incomplete explanations of the new feature being discussed. Code examples are frequently given with scant regard to illustrating intent, rendering them useless if a [...]

[...] . In the interest of brevity I have omitted imports and some boilerplate from the code examples below; the full, working codebase is available in a github repository which you can fork to [...]

[...] masculine condition, in his trademark terse, hard prose. The Comfort of Strangers — Ian McEwan McEwan’s second novel is, in my opinion, a great leap forward from The Cement Garden. The [...]

[...] this locally. Deploying to EC2 In order to run the application, you will need to set up an EC2 autoscaling group in AWS, and deploy the jar built into target/scala-2.10 into each new instance, as per [...]

[...] I was gnawing down on some rhino horn. Failures In March I went to France. In France, the vegetarian option is chicken. A French friend offered to make me a simple vegetarian salad with a foie gras [...]

[...] we want to use. Note that this will include ourselves: Using these, we can construct a basic Akka configuration: And finally create our ActorSystem: To prove this has worked, let's create a simple [...]

[...] concerns the ability of new nodes to discover the running cluster on startup. The Akka documentation explains the two ways to do this: manually, or using seed nodes, which it describes as & [...]

[...] to forgive it thanks to the colourfully rendered characters. The Fifth Child — Doris Lessing Lessing is without doubt one of my favourite authors. Writing across a wide range of genres and [...]