Introduction to the Actor Model with Akka.NET

This is a great opportunity to create community, relationships, and learn about new technology!

SCHEDULE

5:30pm - Arrival/Registration + Food/Drinks + Networking

6:00pm - Speaker/Presentation

7:15pm - Food/Drinks + Networking

8:00pm - End

FOOD/DRINKS

Food and drinks will be provided! Please contact us if you have any dietary restrictions/food allergies.

DIRECTIONS AND PARKING INSTRUCTIONS

Meeting will be held in the offices of SmartDraw Software, 1780 Hughes Landing Blvd #1100 on the 11th floor.

Enter through the main doors of the building and take the elevator to the 11th floor; the door to SmartDraw's suite is in the elevator lobby on the 11th floor.

If you arrive at 1780 Hughes Landing after 6pm, a member of the SmartDraw team will help you enter the building then travel up to the 11th floor.

Parking:

Park in the garage directly opposite. You'll need to take a ticket to enter but there is no fee to leave - parking is free.

Speaker & Talk

Aaron Stannard

Aaron will be discussing the following:

Introduction to the Actor Model with Akka.NET

The actor model is an old computer science concept, originating in 1973 - and it laid dormant is largely a thought experiment for most of its history until the rise of the Internet. Now in the era of cheap, commodity cloud computing the actor model is staging a major comeback across all programming languages and runtimes, both for building distributed systems and for creating reactive mobile or desktop applications.

In this talk we will introduce the actor model through the use of Akka.NET, the most popular distributed actor model framework in .NET. We'll talk about what sorts of problems it solves well, when you should use it, and what are some of the adoption costs and overhead involved in using a tool like Akka.NET.

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