At Evojam we always seize opportunities for R&D. So when a former client asked us for cooperation on an existing project, which involved a 1 billion member social network, we jumped at the opportunity. We joined the team and did our best to fix bugs and solve data consistency, performance and reliability issues. Additionally, we presented a more effective approach to the application’s architecture. This article briefly covers our journey through the 1 billion member social network.
If you want to connect your Scala application to MongoDB you have two choices, really. You can use the official driver, which comes in two flavors (Java Async Driver or Scala driver, which is just a facade with RxScala API). Alternatively you can go with ReactiveMongo, a completely new approach built on top of Akka.
Here at Evojam we're heavy users of Scala, MongoDB, and the Play Framework. So naturally, when MongoDB introduced the 3.0 Java Driver we were quite excited to see that it featured an aysnchronous core. Unfortunately after some research it seemed that the Scala community didn't share our enthusiasm.
