Sessions at Strange Loop 2010 about Scala and Akka

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• Scalable Concurrent Applications with Akka and Scala

  by Dean Wampler

  Akka (akkasource.org) is a Scala and Java framework for building highly scalable, fault-tolerant applications. Akka is inspired by Erlang's OTP framework. It uses *Actors* as the primary concurrency mechanism, with support for fault tolerance through transactional actors ("transactors"), actor supervision and error recovery, distributed processing, and transactional state management using Clojure-style persistent data structures, with or without "durable" persistence from NoSQL data stores like MongoDB, Redis, and Cassandra.

  Akka also provides convenient integration APIs to 3rd-party libraries for web applications, REST, messaging queues, security, Spring and Guice dependency injection, etc.

  Using a live example, this session demonstrates the capabilities of Akka and the productivity you can enjoy while using it.

  • Akka
  • Scala
  Coverage slide deck