Kevin Wright
Kevin is part of Scala Technology Ltd. a regular speaker, and committer to multiple open-source Scala projects
Talks I've Given
-
Real-world scaling with Scala & Akka
Featuring Kevin Wright
Kevin presents a brief journey through the scaling that he's had to deal with at Zeebox, and how running on the JVM allowed them to bring some very effective and mature tools to bear on profiling & load-testing tools to bear.
scala jvm akka json nodes -
Akka at Zeebox: A case study
Featuring Kevin Wright
In this talk we will discuss Akka and how it is used in a couple of zeebox components, first to implement a high-throughput and low latency RESTful/streaming event service. Second, to provide a clustered service tracking the state and behaviour of thousands of users. It will be a practical talk...
akka scala low-latency lift -
Idiomatic Scala with Kevin Wright
Featuring Kevin Wright
Kevin Wright -- fresh from his appearance at the Skills Matter Scala eXchange -- gives a talk on Idiomatic Scala, including some helpful tips on making you Scala code more Scala and less Java looking.
scala java -
Scala as an Agile Enabler
Featuring Kevin Wright
The topics Kevin will cover include:
-> agile, TDD/BDD, refactoring, continuous integration, iterations, stakeholder communication, developer communication, responsiveness to change, Scala (and how it relates to all of the above)
scala agile tdd bdd refactoring -
MineSweeper in Scala and Lift
Featuring Kevin Wright
In this talk, Kevin Wright presents MineSweeper for Scala and Lift.
scala lift akka -
-
Scala, Traits & Mixins
Featuring Kevin Wright
Following on from the previous LSUG talk we will take a look into how Scala uses an enhanced version of the Java interfaces called traits to add new functionality to not only your own classes but also to existing Java classes.
scala java
