Any rationale for removing Akka from Spark ? Also, what is the replacement ? 

Thanks 

> On Dec 27, 2015, at 8:31 AM, Dean Wampler <deanwamp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Note that Akka is being removed from Spark. Even if it weren't, I would 
> consider keeping Akka processes separate from Spark processes, so you can 
> monitor, debug, and scale them independently. So consider streaming data from 
> Akka to Spark Streaming or go the other way, from Spark to Akka Streams.
> 
> dean
> 
> Dean Wampler, Ph.D.
> Author: Programming Scala, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly)
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> 
>> On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Do you mind sharing your use case ?
>> 
>> It may be possible to use a different approach than Akka.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>>> On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Disha Shrivastava <dishu....@gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I wanted to know how to use Akka framework with Spark starting from basics. 
>>> I saw online that Spark uses Akka framework but I am not really sure if I 
>>> can define Actors and use it in Spark.
>>> 
>>> Also, how to integrate Akka with Spark as in how will I know how many Akka 
>>> actors are running on each of my worker machines? Can I control that?
>>> 
>>> Please help. The only useful resource which I could find online was Akka 
>>> with Spark Streaming which was also not very clear.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Disha
> 

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