Special Ks! Intro to distributed applications with Akka.Net and Kafka

Special Ks! Intro to distributed applications with Akka.Net and Kafka with Roberto Vespa

After the intro talk about Akka.Net from a couple of years ago, this is a long due follow up discussion about how Akka.Net can be used to build distributed system able to leverage modern infrastructures, even for “simple” business applications. After a quick refresher around actor systems and Akka.Net basics, we’ll see how an Akka.Net cluster is setup, how it behaves and which mechanisms are used to route messages. There will also be a small intro to Kafka in order to illustrate what it brings to the table when dealing with distributed systems, and how to use it along with Akka.Net. We’ll be spending most of the time looking at code and running demos, so it should not be too boring!

About speaker

I’m Roberto Vespa (aka: wasp) and I've been working in Information Technology area since 1995. I've been consulting on several different projects and for many customers, and I've been working in Switzerland since 2011.
Computer Science and IT are evolving faster and faster, and I think that being curious about the landscape is crucial in order to do a good job in such an area. I love to learn new things and then share them with people as curious as me.