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An Akka MessageDispatcher is what makes Akka Actors "tick", it is the engine of the machine so to speak. All MessageDispatcher implementations are also an ExecutionContext, which means that they can be used to execute arbitrary code, for instance Futures. Every ActorSystem will have a def...

So in case you want to give your Actor a different dispatcher than the default, you need to do two things, of which the first is to configure the dispatcher in your application.conf: my-dispatcher { # Dispatcher is the name of the event-based dispatcher type = Dispatcher # What kind of Exe...