akka_app defines a standard stack for Akka applications, as well as traits and utilities for Akka Actors.

The included Akka Stack

• Akka 2.2.4 (including remote + testkit)
• JodaTime
• Yammer Metrics for stats and instrumentation
• spray-json for JSON serialization
• spray for embedded web server, with some common routes like /metricz and /statusz

Useful Traits and Utilities

• ActorStack - a base trait for enabling stackable Akka Actor traits
• Slf4jLogging - directly log to Slf4j + add akkaSource MDC context for the actor's path
• ActorMetrics - instrument receive handler duration and invocation frequency
• CommonRoutes - /metricz, /statusz

For more info

Please see the following presentation for more info on how we use stackable traits and Akka at Ooyala:

http://www.slideshare.net/EvanChan2/akka-inproductionpnw-scala2013