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Trond Bjerkestrand is an Akka and Scala trainer and consultant at Typesafe with extensive knowledge of the Java development environment and deploying highly scalable applications. He is also the co-founder of SpendChart.no, a personal finance management site built to scale easily using Scala, lift, sbt, scalaquery and scalatest. Before founding SpendChart Trond worked as a Java consultant at Accenture.

31.10.2011

Above the Clouds: Introducing Akka

Simpler scalable & fault-tolerant applications

LOCATION: Zürich
KEYWORDS: Concept, Product, Technology

AGENDA:18:00 - 19:00h: Talk incl. Q/A
Afterwards you are invited to a refreshment.

SPEAKER: Trond Bjerkestrand   COMPANY: Typesafe

We believe that one should never have to choose between productivity and scalability, which has been the case with traditional approaches to concurrency and distribution. The cause of that has been the wrong tools and the wrong layer of abstraction - and Akka is here to change that. Akka is using the Actors together with Software Transactional Memory (STM) to create a unified runtime and programming model for scaling both UP (utilizing multi-core processors) and OUT (utilizing the grid/cloud). Akka provides location and network transparency by abstracting away both these tangents of scalability by turning them into an operations and configuration task. This gives the Akka runtime freedom to do adaptive automatic load-balancing, cluster rebalancing, replication and partitioning. In this talk you will learn what Akka is and how it can be used to solve hard scalability problems. Akka is available at http://akka.io (under Apache 2 license).

LEVEL OF TALK: Intermediate
LANGUAGE: Talk: en / Slides: en

Trond Bjerkestrand is an Akka and Scala trainer and consultant at Typesafe with extensive knowledge of the Java development environment and deploying highly scalable applications. He is also the co-founder of SpendChart.no, a personal finance management site built to scale easily using Scala, lift, sbt, scalaquery and scalatest. Before founding SpendChart Trond worked as a Java consultant at Accenture.

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