Akka is a powerful and rapidly evolving framework that can help you take advantage of
multi-core hardware and cloud infrastructures. Moreover, its elegant syntax makes it really easy to introduce into your project.
How easy is it? During my talk to the
London Scala User Group (
LSUG) I was able to write up a simple web application with
Scala,
Lift, and
sbt in about an hour. This app benefited from Lift’s CometActors on the front end and Akka actors on the back-end.
The
code from the session is now available on Github. I will add an Akka Supervisor to this project when I get a chance, but its nice to have to real deal, original code up there [note: I have updated it for Scala 2.8.0 final]. My slides are available on
Google Docs.
The slides are also on Slideshare as below:
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