June Event:Concurrency, Without the Pain: An intro to Akka.NET & the Actor Model

Summary
We will introduce and explain the mind-bending actor model from the ground up. This will teach the foundational concepts for understanding the processing framework (Akka, ported to .NET from the JVM) that powers organizations like Walmart, Hootsuite, Apache Spark, Twitter, LinkedIn, and many more.
Attendees will walk away understanding all the fundamental concepts of what makes an actor systems so scalable and powerful, and all the foundational knowledge they need to start creating and deploying actor systems in the wild to solve hard problems.

Speaker Location
Aaron Stannard is the CTO and co-founder of Petabridge, where he makes distributed programming for .NET developers easy by working on Akka.NET and Helios. Prior to Petabridge he founded MarkedUp Analytics, a real-time in-app marketing and analytics service used by 1000+ developers. Prior to that he worked at Microsoft as a Startup Developer Evangelist.

Crescent Solutions
6420 Wilshire Blvd Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA

Parking
Parking is free in the front of the building. The first level of the parking garage becomes free after business hours. All the metered parking spots nearby open up at 7pm. There is also paid parking a few blocks away on Wilshire.

Donation
There will be a $5.00 donation ($10 for recruiters) at the door to cover food and drinks.