Recently I included Kamon’s instrumentation tools into an Akka project. I posted the sample project on github. I’ll do a quick walk through of the process in this post along with my initial impressions of Kamon. I started with the documentation in Kamon’s plain application installation guide. I added the latest Kamon bundle in my build.sbt. This includes all the instrumentation available in Kamon. libraryDependencies += "io.kamon" %% "kamon-bundle" % "2.

This is a quick introduction to setting up an asynchronous test of akka actor using TestKit and ScalaTest. With the Akka 2.6 release, Akka Typed becomes the default and the actors we’ve been using prior to the 2.6 release are now “Akka Classic.” I’ll be covering Akka Typed in some forthcoming posts. But for now, I’ll use Akka Classic to do a quick example of the basic usage of TestKit. I’m going to demo this using a really simple actor that replies to a Ping message with a Pong.