Programming Throwdown Podcast: Jonas Bonér On Why Akka, the Actor Model, and Reactive Systems

What To Know About Akka, Actors, And Reactive Systems

We’ve always been big fans of the Programming Throwdown podcast hosted by Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci (engineers at Google and Facebook, respectively).  Obviously web-scale engineering at those types of companies tends to be bleeding-edge, and we’ve observed that Patrick and Jason are just very intelligent in how they approach new developer topics.

So we were thrilled that Lightbend CTO and co-founder Jonas Bonér could join Programming Throwdown to discuss the finer points of Akka, Actors and Reactive. Go here to download the full podcast (90min) and learn more about these key topics:

• Key concepts in how Actor Systems work as a unit of computation
• The declarative approach to Reactive programming, and why concepts of futures and promises matter
• The importance of full isolation in distributed systems
• How the complexity of state grows in distributed systems, and the importance of concurrency constructs and eventual consistency for data flows
• How Akka works under the hood

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