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Scala eXchange 2011: Viktor Klang on The Promising Future of Akka
The Promising Future of Akka
In this talk, Viktor Klang -- contributor to the Akka and Atmosphere projects -- introduces the Futures in the Akka toolkit, and will show you how you can utilize Futures to enable non-blocking composition of parallel sources of data or computations, to defer blocking not only until the end of the universe, but to get rid of it completely. You will also see how Scalas Delimited Continuations can be used to create a seemingly blocking computation that in fact will not block, enabling Dataflow Concurrency
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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 THE PROMISING FUTURE OF AKKA
This session took part at the Scala eXchange 2011. You can view the other 20 podcasts here.
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