Achieving high throughput with SQS using Akka Streams

SQS (Amazon Simple Queue Service) is a managed queue service provided by Amazon. Since it offers high availability and a fully managed service, it is a good choice when you need to deal with queues and do not want to manage and maintain your own message broker. Its price is also very attractive since it costs only USD 0,40 per million requests. We have already talked about Akka Streams over here, specifically comparing it with Apache Camel, and, we already know it is a great tool to build reactive…