Akka Cluster and Unconference
- May 1, 2014 · 6:00 PM
A special thanks to Unbounce for helping to organize this Meetup. Scala members, we're doing this Meetup a little differently this time. On Thursday, May 1st at 6:30pm we will be doing a combined "unconference" Meetup. To start, we'll hear Alex Keller's talk on Akka Clustering (since he was unable to make the last one), then we'll move into an unconference-style session where we vote as a group on what we want to talk about. This Meetup will be at Unbounce located at [masked] Water Street, Vancouver.
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Alex Keller
The Road to Akka Cluster ... With Some Forecasts for the Future
With the flood of mobile devices, NoSQL databases and cloud services, you most likely already have experienced a distributed system first hand. Distributed computing is turning into a standard obstacle we all must plan for in our software applications. Writing distributed applications is both more important and more challenging than ever. We are confronted with Impossibility Theorems (CAP), Consensus Protocols, and Failure Detection. In this talk Alex presents the distributed computing landscape, from past to present and beyond. Along the way he discusses the decisions and trade-offs that were made when creating an Akka Cluster, its theoretical foundation, why it is designed the way it is and what the future of Event-driven, Scalable, Resilient and Responsive applications.
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Here's a breakdown:
6:00pm Doors open and mingling begins
6:30pm First presentation by Alex Keller
7:15pm Break
7:30pm Unconference, bring topics and/or materials to pitch and talk!
8:15pm Head off to a nearby watering hole
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Thank you Unbounce
Unbounce is kindly helping to help host this Meetup. A special thanks to Carl Schmidt for helping to organize this.
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Aleksey V.
3 · May 2, 2014
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Geoff W.
I guess meet up site doesn't like ) in URL, here is bitly link http://bit.ly/1n3O6SY
May 1, 2014
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Geoff W.
Discussion tonight mentioned dynamo paper which is refrenced on the wikipedia page http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo_(storage_system)
May 1, 2014
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Justin
Slides for akka cluster http://www.slideshare.net/jboner/the-road-to-akka-cluster-and-beyond
1 · May 1, 2014
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A former member
How do we get to the 4th floor?
May 1, 2014
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Alex C.
I'll miss the talk, but I *might* be able to make the Unconference bit. Although, 45 minutes is not really long enough. :)
May 1, 2014
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Justin
we'll definitely go longer if necessary. Unbounce is kindly providing beer and pizza to keep us fueled :)
May 1, 2014
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Alex C.
Oh, and just in case I don't make it, I'd like to plug a couple things:
I'm doing a full-day workshop on Scala/Akka/Spray at Polyglot near the end of May: http://www.polyglotconf.com/#workshop-scala-web
And, my company is hiring. :)
Dev Team Lead: http://www.metaforsoftware.com/careers/#dtl
Developer: http://www.metaforsoftware.com/careers/#jsd
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The blog posts on the topics I covered yesterday:
Classtype: http://blog.vorona.ca/type-aware-generics-in-scala.html
JMN: http://blog.vorona.ca/measuring-scala-performance-with-jmh.html
I used some of the links from this gist: https://gist.github.com/voronaam/10afdd79790aa089eefd