Live Coding: Building Stateful and Scalable Reactive Streams with Akka

CASE is back after a (not so) brief hiatus, and we'd love to have you join us virtually on October 7th for our next meetup!

CASE member Nolan Grace will be giving us a preview of his upcoming Scale by the Bay conference talk.

Akka is an amazing toolkit for building scalable and resilient applications. In this session we will dive into the hidden gems of Akka. Nolan will start the session with a quick introduction to Akka Streams and Actors. From there he will dive into the live coding part of the session. Nolan will build a fully backpressured, stateful, and scalable application from scratch. By the end of this session you will understand the Akka modules best suited for your next Reactive Application and the pitfalls to avoid.

Nolan Grace is a Senior Software Developer at M1 Finance. Nolan splits his time between building the world’s coolest fintech software and trying to find the world’s best food and wine. Nolan is both a certified sommelier as well as a certified reactive architect. If you have any restaurant recommendations or if you want to talk about distributed systems Nolan would love to chat.

Many thanks to our virtual hosts, and my new employer, M1 Finance for hosting!