Scala – Using Akka Actors with Spring Beans

Its kinda hard to understand your diagrams, like is the front end section on the left part is the whole client application architecture?? and the right section is the server side? even though, it is, still I can't get to understand why you have the database and spring layer in the front end?is it a database uniquely local to each client application?

But to give my idea, the common trend in using Spring application context is making it as singleton meaning one spring context in the server side,thats the essence of it, or else you have already defy its purpose. The beans (e.g services) should be stateless so not to produce undesirable result that concurrency issues could results from more than one client requesting the same thing and would need to use the same beans/services. making them singleton of course is the ideal way to save memory and avoid the instance creation on demand and after using is just to be garbage collected. There will be no bottleneck but instead it would be actually faster cause the object is already loaded in the memory and each request will have its own heap when executing that object once called. So basically, singleton is faster and saves more memory.

I don't buy the argument that the JVM is not as good to manipulate JSON than Node. The JVM is filled with a lot of really fast JSON parsers, Jackson being one of them. As a bonus it handles streaming json as well. Look at the project before making an opinion. Your problem is fairly common, you want to connect to a firehose of social data, via an actor, pass the entity to another actor to validate or modify to your desired kind of Json, then pass it to another actor to persist to your data store. You might use some queues (LinkedBlockingQueues, etc) in the middle if needed. In the validating and parsing actor, just Jackson or the Json4s project (https://github.com/json4s/json4s) to enrich or modify your JSON. The rest is fairly standard.