SkillsCast

A great new way to handle streaming data: Reactive Streams & Akka

scala akka reactive-applications reactive-streams

25th November 2014 in London

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Reactive streams - http://www.reactive-streams.org - is an initiative to provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking back pressure on the JVM. It is a collaborative effort by Twitter, Netflix, Pivotal, Red Hat, Typesafe and others.

In this session, we want to talk about streams in general, the main concepts behind the reactive streams API, and how to handle streams with Akka (http://akka.io/). After an introductory talk we are going to go through some code examples using Akka streams, an implementation of reactive streams on top of the Akka actor library. We will look into interfacing streams and actors, and handling streams with Akka's Flows.

It will we an entry level session for people interested in stream processing. Previous knowledge of Scala and/or Akka may be beneficial, but is not necessary.

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