Lightbend Podcast: How Akka Can Boost Your Scala Application

Why you should consider using Akka with Scala

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In this podcast, I sit down with Aleksandar Skrbic, a software developer based in Novi Sad, Serbia, and author of some great introductory posts on Akka Actors. We discuss how Akka has been instrumental in his career as a distributed systems developer and tech blogger, as well as:

• His background in data science, and his move towards Scala development
• His “eureka” moment with the Akka toolkit, and how this evolution boosted his coding in Scala
• What it’s like to learn Akka, and how it influenced his professional work
• Which parts of the Akka toolkit he is most comfortable with, and why
• Why he started writing blogs, and his future ambitions

You can find out more about Aleksandar here:

• Personal blog: https://aleksandarskrbic.github.io/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/skrbic_a
• Github: https://github.com/aleksandarskrbic

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Guest Speaker: Aleksandar Skrbic

Freelance Software Engineer

Twitter: @skrbic_a   GitHub: aleksandarskrbic

Software engineer specialized in data engineering, microservices, distributed, and data-intensive systems. Passionate about Scala and functional programming.

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