Simpler Scalability, Fault-Tolerance, Concurrency & Remoting through Actors
We believe that writing correct concurrent, fault-tolerant and scalable applications is too hard. Most of the time it's because we are using the wrong tools and the wrong level of abstraction. Akka is here to change that.
Akka is using the Actor Model together with Software Transactional Memory (STM) to raise the abstraction level and provide a better platform to build correct concurrent and scalable applications. For fault-tolerance it adopts the "Let it crash" model which have been used with great success in the Telecom industry to build applications that self-heals, systems that never stop. Akka's Remote Actors, together with the Clustering module, provides the abstraction for transparent distribution, adaptive automatic load-balancing and cluster rebalancing, replication and is the basis for truly scalable and fault-tolerant applications.
In this workshop you will learn what Akka is, the ideas behind its design and implementation and how it can be used to solve hard real-world problems. It is a practical hand-on course with roughly and equal split between theory sessions and labs. Akka is Open Source and available at http://akkasource.org/
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Functional Programming eXchange 2012 (March 16)Skills Matter is delighted to announce the 3rd annual Functional Programming eXchange on March 16th 2012. Join us for a day of talks, open-space discussions and brainstorming on Functional Programming, featuring on Scala David Pollak, Kevin Wright and Miles Sabin.Get more info and book here.
Scala Days 2012 (April 17-18)Scala Days is the premier event for Scala enthusiasts, researchers, and practitioners. Scala Days 2012 is a fantastic and unique occasion to meet with Scala-using professionals and companies, to exchange ideas and form business relations, as well as to discover the latest practical and theoretical development concerning the Scala language.
A central part of the Scala Days event will be the Third Scala Workshop, a forum to showcase and discuss a wide range of cutting-edge Scala research projects. Get more info and book here.
Typesafe's Fast Track to Scala
This two-day Fast Track to Scala course, designed by Martin Odersky,
the creator of the Scala programming language, and Heiko Seeberger, a
recognized Scala expert, will give you an excellent grounding in Scala.
Prepare to learn to: * be a competent user of Scala constructs in
application code, * know and be able to apply the functional programming
style in Scala, * use the fundamental Scala tools, * be confident to
start using Scala in production applications -- and much more. Get more
info and sign up here
ABOUT JONAS BONER
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Jonas Bonér is a entrepreneur, programmer, teacher, mentor, speaker and author who spends most of his time hacking on open source and lecturing and speaking at developer conferences world-wide.
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ABOUT VIKTOR KLANG
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Viktor Klang, also known as √, is a passionate programmer with a taste for concurrency paradigms and performance optimization. Tech Lead for the Akka project at Typesafe.
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PODCAST SIMPLER SCALABILITY, FAULT-TOLERANCE, CONCURRENCY
This session took part at the Functional Programming eXchange 2011. You can view the other 9 podcasts here.
FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING EXCHANGE 2011 PHOTOS
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