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We are planning to create few new microservices as part of our platform.

Currently all our microservices are Java-Spring based, and we use docker/kubernetes to scale.

We are now planning to evaluate Scala-Akka to create microservice.

Any pointers about how we can scale Scala-Akka microservice will be great help. We found that (in some blogs) than scala-akka microservice are also being deployed as docker containers. Is that the only way to scale scala-akka services or is there any other possible way as well?

Also, akka provides components which can help in scaling, as mentioned in following blog: https://www.datio.com/iaas/building-a-docker-container-orchestrator-with-akka/

Which is better way to scale scala-akka microservices?

Thanks

Anuj

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    The way to scale a microservice is deploy another instance. Language it is written in doesn't matter. Whether you use docker to deploy it or something else is also irrelevant. – Dima Jan 28 '20 at 19:40
  • not necessarily. Docker is not the only way possible. Refer to article blow: https://www.datio.com/iaas/building-a-docker-container-orchestrator-with-akka/ Scala provides inbuilt components which can be used to scale without using docker. Wanted to have a discussion around which is preferred way of scaling. – Anuj Mehra Jan 28 '20 at 19:44
  • That's what I said. There are many possible ways to deploy a service. Which one you pick is largely a matter of taste and doesn't matter for anything. – Dima Jan 28 '20 at 19:46
  • have rephrased my question. I was looking for opinions around preferred way to scale scala-akka microservice. – Anuj Mehra Jan 28 '20 at 19:49
  • The way to scale any microservice is deploy another instance – Dima Jan 28 '20 at 19:52

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Akka has akka-management which provides 2 ways to deploy/discovery the service by kubernetes: By DNS and Kube APIs.

It really works.


https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-management/current/discovery/kubernetes.html
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