Akka Streams: error handling in event processing pipelines

A short read about being careful with error handling in stream design.

Akka Streams is a reasonable choice when it comes to event processing. A wide variety of connectors and integrations makes it easy to assemble a working pipeline and get up to speed quickly.

On the other hand, we have a long list of predefined operators, GraphDSL, support for error handling, a possibility of rolling out custom stages and more. It means, that having a rough idea of what do…