Research Triangle Software Symposium
August 19 - 20, 2016
Reactive Systems with Akka and Java
Saturday - Aug 20 1:00 PM EDT - EDISON A-B
A set various tools to write reactive, concurrent, fault-tolerant applications and services using immutable data, asynchronous message passing using local and remote actors, software transactional memory, and supervised systems. This entire presentation is done in Java.
Akka is a set of various tools to write reactive, concurrent, fault-tolerant applications and services using immutable data, asynchronous message passing using local and remote actors, software transactional memory, and supervised systems.
Akka is also part of the Typesafe stack, a stack that include the Play web framework, Spray, Slick, and the Scala programming language. This Akka presentation will cover Java style usage of Akka with actors, asynchronous message passing, supervision, and streams
Daniel Hinojosa
Independent Consultant
About Daniel Hinojosa
Daniel is a programmer, consultant, instructor, speaker, and recent author. With over 20 years of experience, he does work for private, educational, and government institutions. He is also currently a speaker for No Fluff Just Stuff tour. Daniel loves JVM languages like Java, Groovy, and Scala; but also dabbles with non JVM languages like Haskell, Ruby, Python, LISP, C, C++. He is an avid Pomodoro Technique Practitioner and makes every attempt to learn a new programming language every year. For downtime, he enjoys reading, swimming, Legos, football, and barbecuing.