Akka for the rest of us
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In this talk I aim to convince you that, even if you're not building a distributed system processing millions of transactions per second, Akka is a toolkit which can help build correct, elegant solutions. I'll demonstrate patterns from production apps at the Guardian to illustrate this.
Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed and fault tolerant event-driven applications, but it can also be very useful for those of us who more commonly build applications that run happily on a single EC2 micro.
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Akka for the rest of us
Phil Wills
Phil is senior software architect at the Guardian. He has worked on just about every part of the Guardian's site and the tools which support it; building features, optimising performance and increasing resilience.
Please log in to watch this conference skillscast.
In this talk I aim to convince you that, even if you're not building a distributed system processing millions of transactions per second, Akka is a toolkit which can help build correct, elegant solutions. I'll demonstrate patterns from production apps at the Guardian to illustrate this.
Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed and fault tolerant event-driven applications, but it can also be very useful for those of us who more commonly build applications that run happily on a single EC2 micro.
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- No more Regular Expressions (SkillsCast recorded in December 2014)
- Real-time Systems with Spark Streaming and Kafka (in London on 30th September - 1st October 2019)
- Lightbend Akka for Scala - Professional (in London on 11th - 12th November 2019)
- Scala eXchange London 2019 (in London on 12th - 13th December 2019)
- Scalax2gether Community Day 2019 (in London on 14th December 2019)
- How Open Source is Funded & Privacy Engineering for the World of Kafka (in London on 24th September 2019)
- Keynote by Zainab Ali on Abstract Data Types In The Region Of Abysmal Pain, And How To Navigate Them (in London on 30th September 2019)
- The Last Frontier and Beyond (SkillsCast recorded in August 2019)
- Why API Design Matters, and Why Yours Sucks! (and mine sucks too!) (SkillsCast recorded in June 2019)
Thanks to our sponsors
Akka for the rest of us
Phil Wills
Phil is senior software architect at the Guardian. He has worked on just about every part of the Guardian's site and the tools which support it; building features, optimising performance and increasing resilience.