Secure API's and HA systems with Akka

Hi all,
On the last ScalaDays I have found 2 great speakers for this meetup.

Alessandro Vermeulen of ING will share how ING is 'Building Resilient and Secure APIs with Finagle'. Jeroen Gordijn of Trivento will talk about 'Building high available systems with Akka Distributed Data'.

Hope to see you!

Location not final yet.

Agenda:
18:30 - walk-in, drinks and (hopefully) something to eat
19:00 - first session
19:50 - short break
20:00 - second session
20:50 - talks and drinks
21:30 - end

Building Resilient and Secure APIs with Finagle : Alessandro Vermeulen

As a financial institution, security is of the outmost concern. At the same time we need to provide always-on service to our customers. This means that we need to create resilient APIs and in addition we need to discover and connect to them in a secure way which exceeds standard service discovery. In addition we offer our internal developers the same promises as our 3rd party developers in terms of accessibility and backwards compatibility.

This talk takes us on a journey on how we manage, register, discover, expose and consume our APIs at ING in a secure and resilient manner.

Building high available systems with Akka Distributed Data : Jeroen Gordijn

Distributed systems, if done right, allow for high available highly scalable systems. There is a lot said and done about consistency in a distributed system and this talk focuses on building a system that favors high availability over consistency. To build highly available systems you have to sacrifice consistency when partitioning occurs. A Conflict-Free Replicated Data Type (CRDT) is a datatype that allows nodes in a distributed system to replicate data to each other without conflicts. Akka has a module to use make use CRDT's to distribute data over your cluster. This module is called Distributed Data.

This talk will give an introduction to Distributed systems, data replication and how CRDT's work. This will serve as a basis to explain Akka Distributed Data. At the end a short demo will show it working.

Cheers,
Brabant Scala