Strange Loop

2009 - 2023

St. Louis, MO

Akka: Reloaded

We believe that one should never have to choose between productivity and scalability, which has been the case with traditional approaches to concurrency and distribution. The cause of that has been the wrong tools and the wrong layer of abstraction — and Akka is here to change that. Akka is using the Actors together with Software Transactional Memory (STM) to create a unified runtime and programming model for scaling both UP (utilizing multi-core processors) and OUT (utilizing the grid/cloud). With Akka 2.0 this will be taken to a whole new level.

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Josh Suereth

Typesafe

@jsuereth

Josh Suereth is an engineer at Typesafe Inc. He is the author of Scala In Depth and an enthusiastic fan of large distributed parallel programming solutions.