Type safe, message driven, distributed - a whirlwind tour of Akka by Johan Andrén

In this talk we’ll do a quick intro to the actor model with the typed actor APIs introduced in Akka 2.6 and then peek at many of the things the Akka toolkit provides for writing message driven, type safe and distributed systems using the actor model from Scala (and other JVM languages).

Johan Andrén is a senior developer in the core Akka Team at Lightbend where he has spent the last 5 years working on various aspects of Akka itself and the umbrella of projects closely related to it. Before joining Lightbend he worked as a mentor and consultant with Scala and the JVM as speciality. In his spare time he is one of the organizers of Scala Usergroup Stockholm.

Resources:

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro of Magnus Sedlacek
01:48 Intro of Johan Andren
02:50 Agenda of the presentation
03:29 Actor Basics
05:00 In response to receiving a message
06:06 Code demo of an Actor
09:02 Code demo of an Actor with a state
10:26 Actor interaction patterns
12:18 Code demo of request – response
14:23 Distributed Systems
16:10 Local
16:19 Distributed
16:36 Actor Model is a great fit
18:53 Akka Cluster
23:32 User PAI of Cluster
24:28 Typed Receptionist
27:07 Akka Cluser Tool
30:33 Distributed Data
35:21 Cluster Singleton
38:15 Multi-DC
40:49 Akka Documentation
41:47 Q&A

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