Learn & Hack

Josh Suereth (http://jsuereth.com/), senior engineer at Typesafe (http://typesafe.com/) and author of Scala in Depth (http://www.manning.com/suereth/) and SBT in Action (http://www.manning.com/suereth2/), and will be giving an introduction to Akka. Lots of folks are excited by this framework and it'll be great to see how to get it up and running. Here's Josh's abstract:

Introduction to Actors Systems

Erlang has made popular the notation of asynchronous message passing as means of distribution and Scaling. While the idea of "actors" is fundamentally simple, how do we, the software engineers, make use of this abstraction to develop real life, scalable systems? This talk designs a scalable distributed search service using Akka and Scala using the "zen" of Actor based design. It covers the basics of message passing, designing topologies and handling failure and moves onto a few common patterns in actors system design, including service overload detection and tracking user sessions.

Knowledge Level: Beginner