Meet Akka gRPC

Our next event will be a co-op with the Belgian Scala User Group. Our guest speaker is Renato Cavalcanti who works for Lightbend (formerly Typesafe), the company behind the Scala programming language, Akka and Lagom. Akka & Reactive Programming are a perfect match, using the concepts of the Actor model & Akka Streams.

In this talk, Renato will give an introduction to Akka gRPC and how it can be integrated with Akka Http, Play and Lagom.
gRPC is a schema-first RPC framework, where your protocol is declared in a protobuf definition, and requests and responses will be streamed over an HTTP/2 connection.

Based on a gRPC service definition, Akka gRPC can generate model classes, service API (backed by Future and Akka Streams API), server infrastructure and a gRPC client.

18:00
Welcome with food & drinks
18:30
Start presentation
20:00
Drinks & networking