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Scaling Web Apps with Akka

image courtesy of http://linai.net78.net/blog/2011/08/22/scalaakka-references/

Akka is a powerful and rapidly evolving framework that can help you take advantage of multi-core hardware and cloud infrastructures. Moreover, its elegance makes it really easy to introduce into your project.

Testing Blocking Messages with Akka’s TestKit

Laura Baranek 11 by West Point Public Affairs, on FlickrAkka’s TestKit package is both comprehensive and powerful. It needs to be because some of the properties of the Actor model can make testing awkward. The main culprits are asynchronous events and having no direct access to the internals of an Actor. TestKit addresses both of those issues and makes testing mostly straight forward. Nonetheless, I managed to paint myself into a corner at one point and while this is much harder in the latest version of Akka (2.0-RC2), I still think it is subtle enough to document.
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#CrepeCity – The London Sneaker Festival

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This is the Glastonbury of sneakers and the Reading of kicks. Where footwear goes to see and be seen. This is Crepe City.

Some amazing sneakers out today, both on feet and for sale. A few flavors of the LeBron 8 really caught my eye, there was this electric blue and yellow style (see above) as well as a totally psycedelic colorway (for sale). There were perhaps five pairs of Jordan Vs in red suede. I think I saw a pair of David Robinsons. Other notables include

  • Air Trainer 91s
  • Gel Lyte III in about 5 colorways (for sale)
  • Adidas teddy bear sneakers
  • Loads of Jordan 20s (for sale)

The Crepe City team was taking photos as well, so I am going to make sure and post a link when those are up.