Berlin Scala Meetup: Sunsetting Akka

You're invited to our first-ever Berlin Scala Meetup at Wolt Berlin HQ!

The talks of the night will cover the topics related to recent changes to Akka license and ways to migrate to alternative technologies.

Talks of the night:

Futuristic Doobie by Dmytro Iaroslavskyi
The first speaker Dmytro Iaroslavskyi will tell you how to run Doobie queries on top of Futures!

Slick and alternative Future-based database access libraries often can be a blocking factor in migration from the Akka stack. This talk will explore ways to migrate the codebase from Slick to Doobie and prepare your database layer for modern stacks such as Cats Effect and ZIO.

Journey from Alpakka Kafka to FS2 Streams by Balaji Rao
The second speaker Balaji Rao will tell his experience of migrating the codebase away from Alpakka Kafka streaming library!
This talk will dive into how we can employ FS2 Streams and FS2 Kafka libraries to help us achieve painless migration from Alpakka Kafka.
Covering how to keep streaming approach and seamlessly switch traffic on production for a highly loaded solution with zero downtime.
Functional streams it is! 🚀

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Agenda:

• 18:00 - Open the doors, networking & food
• 18:50 - Welcome speech by organizers!
• 19:00 - Futuristic Doobie by Dmytro Iaroslavskyi
• 19:40 - Journey from Alpakka Kafka to FS2 Streams by Balaji Raghavendra Rao
• 20:30 - Socialize
• 22:00 - Party comes to an end!

Speakers:

Dmytro Iaroslavskyi, Senior Software Engineer at Merchant Group at Wolt

Functional Programming enthusiast who loves to use Scala and to teach about Scala.

Balaji Rao, Staff Engineer at Courier Group at Wolt

Balaji is a Staff Software Engineer with more than 10 years of experience. Passionate software engineer with a love for functional programming and functional streams in particular.

We're very excited to welcome you! See you soon 🤩

P.S. We're going with Wolt speakers for our first Scala meetup, but maybe next time you would like to speak instead?

We'd love to hear from you if you're interested! Please, contact our Scala Competence Lead Kyrylo at [kyrylo.kozlov@wolt.com](mailto:kyrylo.kozlov@wolt.com)