This is an overview of Akka anti-pattern articles. You can think of these anti-patterns as the opposite of Akka best practices – that is, things you should not be doing when using Akka.

Here is also a talk about 8 very frequent anti-patterns out there:

Basics

Performance

Network / Cluster

Using remoting

Trusting the network

Always using the defaults (to be written)

Using cluster without / with the wrong split-brain resolver (to be written)

Architecture / Design

Not defining a protocol (to be written)

Naming your application components after akka concepts

Too many actor systems

Blindly ignoring dead letters (to be written)

Afraid you may have anti-patterns in your application?

Maybe the Reactive Audit is something for you.