Lightbend Tech Digest - October 2016

Happy Halloween! We're keeping the lights bright with our October Tech Digest on Akka, Lagom, Play and Scala!

To contribute to amplifying the news, articles, guides and how-tos out there, feel free to reach out on Twitter at @myfear to point me towards relevant resources. Now it’s time to sit back, grab a coffee and relax while you read through this month’s highlights!

News

• Highlight: Get a 20% discount on Scala By The Bay, Nov 11th-13th 2016, San Francisco (code LIGHTBEND20)
• Typelevel representative at the Scala Center Advisory Board
• Akka Cluster Now Works On Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• Akka-Streams-Kafka 0.13 released
• Akka 2.4.11 released
• Scala 2.12.0-RC2 released
• Scala.js 0.6.13 released
• Lagom 1.2-RC2 released

Articles, Webinars and Books

• Highlight: Free JAX Magazine - October 2016 - Reactive Programming with Scala, Lagom, Spark, Akka and Play
• Spotlight: GraphStage emit and friends - Alternative methods to push/pull allowing you to simplify the logic for some use cases by Patrik Nordwall (@patriknw)
• Handling Split Brain scenarios with Akka
• Demystifying Akka Extensions - An example of how to load per-actor system custom Akka extension.
• Using shapeless' HLists for extra type safety (in Akka Streams)
• Why Reactive? - Foundational Principles for Enterprise Adoption. A free O'Reilly Ebook
• JAXEnter Interview with Scala creator Martin Odersky — The current state of Scala
• CQRS increases consistency
• Instant Messaging at LinkedIn: Scaling to Hundreds of Thousands of Persistent Connections on One Machine
• InfoQ reviews the Reactive Summit 2016 Conference: Reactive Microservices and Staging Data Pipelines

Code-snippets and other highlights

• Highlight: Recordings from the inaugural Reactive Summit 2016 have been released!
• Chat With Akka HTTP Websockets
• An FS2 (Functional Streams for Scala) interface for Akka Streams and Apache Camel
• Simple skeleton project to use Akka HTTP with Scala.js
• ConductR DCOS CLI integration
• Reactive architecture, design, and programming. An interview with Duncan Devore at O'Reilly SACon London
• DNS service locator for Lagom and Akka 

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Author

Markus Eisele

Director Developer Advocacy, Lightbend, Inc.

Twitter: @myfear   GitHub: myfear

Markus is a Java Champion, former Java EE Expert Group member, founder of JavaLand, reputed speaker at Java conferences around the world, and a very well known figure in the Enterprise Java world.