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…

Maybe you've already run into a scenario that you needed to create a finite stream of something that you have no idea about the size of it: a queue, a paged HTTP service, a database table, etc. Luckly for us, both Play! and Akka Stream provide an easy way to create and to handle this kind of stream. Consider you have the following function: def fetchTransactions(page: Int): Future[Seq[Transaction]] = //implementation here You need, somehow, build a report of transactions. There are A LOT of transactions and your machine…