News on Akka Typed

Strongly typed actor interactions have been my goal for a long time. This presentation gives an overview of the basic principles as well as the planned feature set—in particular in the context of modeling complex distributed systems with as much compiler support as we can muster. In the second part we will take a look at the emerging new implementation for the akka-typed package, highlighting the simplifications in semantics and underlying mechanics as compared to the untyped Akka implementation.

Roland Kuhn

Roland is CTO and co-founder of Actyx, author of Reactive Design Patterns, a co-author of the Reactive Manifesto, co-teaching the Coursera course “Principles of Reactive Programming”, and a passionate open-source hakker. Previously he led the Akka project at Lightbend. He also holds a Dr. rer. nat. in particle physics from TU München and have worked in the space industry for several years. He spend most of his life in the central European timezone.