External blog article series:
It is natural to adopt the Akka Streams API for inherently streaming workloads. However, the Akka Streams API is much more broadly applicable and it can be used to address many problems that you may not initially think of as streaming problems.
Read the whole article series at: https://blog.colinbreck.com/rethinking-streaming-workloads-with-akka-streams-part-i/