Scalability, Throughput and Latency benchmark¶

Simple Trading system.

• Here is the result with some graphs
• Here is the article
• Here is the code

Compares:

• Synchronous Scala solution
• Scala library Actors
  • Fire-forget
  • Request-reply
• Akka - Request-reply - Fire-forget with default dispatcher - Fire-forget with Hawt dispatcher

Performance benchmark¶

Benchmarking Akka against:

• Scala Library Actors
• Raw Java concurrency
• Jetlang (Java actors lib) http://github.com/akka/akka-bench