Is Lagom framework ready for production use?

[Amit Miran]

I'm writing a new system and I'm considering using Lagom.

Is it production ready?

What should be my considerations using it ?

[renato.c...@lightbend.com]

Hi Amit, 

Yes, Lagom is production ready. 

One thing to consider when using Lagom is the architecture style it's promoting. 

Using Lagom for a single application doesn't make much sense. Lagom is a Microservice framework that embraces Event Sourcing. 

So, the question is: 

Am I building a system of Microservices? 

If yes, is Event Sourcing what I'm looking for to integrate the different services?

I recommend you this talk from Markus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjYnFiwO8F8) 

and this blog from James (https://jazzy.id.au/2016/10/08/cqrs-increases-consistency.html)

Cheers,

Renato

[Joo Lee]

Hello Amit, 

Yes we went live and we've been using it in production for the last couple of weeks and it has been a success so far.

My impressions so far:

Setting up the Akka Clustering isn't as straight forward as I thought in the beginning, especially without the ConductR. But it's definitely possible.

Event migration is nicely handled with the help from the event migration API provided by Lagom framework, it's easier than I thought.

We've had few minor production issues that were caused by some logical bugs in the codes, but having the event journal helped us to resolve those issues in a timely manner. Event sourcing definitely has a benefit!

Thanks,

Joo