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Ive been intrigued by Akka for a while but finally I was able to take it for a spin. The first thing I wanted to learn was how to compose Futures. Composing Futures provides a way to do two (or more) things at the same time and then wait until they are done. Typically in Java this would be done with a CyclicBarrier. But setting up the code to manage a CyclicBarrier is challenging. So I put together a quick little demo that shows how to do the same thing with Futures in Akka. read more »

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