While Implementing a generalized version of tic-toc-toe I got a bit sidetracked. I wanted to try to use refined types for the points in the field and the result is a small library, pigeonhole! Maybe this was just an exercise in excessive type safety, but it was fun to do!

In the previous post we have built up a mental model of the routing DSL. We’ve got an intuition for what routes and directives are. This time we’ll deepen this insight through learning how to build our own routes and directives.

While I started dusting of an old project that I never properly finished, a crud adapter for Spray, I realized this is a perfect first topic for a blog post. So this will be the first post in a series on akka-http, focussing on the routing DSL. This first post will introduce the mental model of the routing DSL, introducing Directives and Routes.

I had been thinking about putting together a tech-blog as an incentive to explore thoughts on various topics. Because committing to writing about something forces me to research it and weigh my thoughts and opinions.