WEBINAR REPLAY 

Akka Anti-Patterns, Goodbye: Six Features Of Akka 2.6

With Manuel Bernhardt, Engineer, Author, Speaker and Consultant

Audience: Architects, Data Engineers

Technical level: Introductory

Over the past decade, Akka has pioneered the field of Reactive Systems–systems that are elastic, resilient and message-driven so as to be at all times responsive to the users, no matter what. Companies like Disney+, Starbucks, and PayPal depend on these architectural principles to go hand-in-hand with those of cloud native application infrastructure like Kubernetes, which emphasize automation, resilience, and scalability in highly dynamic cloud-based environments.

While the classic Akka APIs have been used for building the foundation of many mission-critical systems across industries, they also contain shortcomings, or anti-patterns, that made building these systems challenging for new users. With the release of Akka 2.6, however, the majority of these anti-patterns have now been rendered impossible by design.

In this special guest webinar with Akka expert and Reactive System Consultant, Manuel Bernhardt, we will go over:

  • Akka 2.6 release highlights - including the new Akka Actor APIs (aka Akka Typed), the new Artery transport which brings improved performance and stability to clustered systems, and a new default serialization mechanism based on Jackson.
  • Six anti-patterns that are now history - which anti-patterns in Akka Classic have been addressed by Akka 2.6 and how to make the best use of the new release.
  • A final anti-pattern - Manuel will explore what he thinks may be one of the last remaining anti-patterns when using Akka...not understanding your hardware.


WEBINAR REPLAY 

Akka Anti-Patterns, Goodbye: Six Features Of Akka 2.6

With Manuel Bernhardt, Engineer, Author, Speaker and Consultant and

Audience: Architects, Data Engineers

Technical level: Introductory

Over the past decade, Akka has pioneered the field of Reactive Systems–systems that are elastic, resilient and message-driven so as to be at all times responsive to the users, no matter what. Companies like Disney+, Starbucks, and PayPal depend on these architectural principles to go hand-in-hand with those of cloud native application infrastructure like Kubernetes, which emphasize automation, resilience, and scalability in highly dynamic cloud-based environments.

While the classic Akka APIs have been used for building the foundation of many mission-critical systems across industries, they also contain shortcomings, or anti-patterns, that made building these systems challenging for new users. With the release of Akka 2.6, however, the majority of these anti-patterns have now been rendered impossible by design.

In this special guest webinar with Akka expert and Reactive System Consultant, Manuel Bernhardt, we will go over:

  • Akka 2.6 release highlights - including the new Akka Actor APIs (aka Akka Typed), the new Artery transport which brings improved performance and stability to clustered systems, and a new default serialization mechanism based on Jackson.
  • Six anti-patterns that are now history - which anti-patterns in Akka Classic have been addressed by Akka 2.6 and how to make the best use of the new release.
  • A final anti-pattern - Manuel will explore what he thinks may be one of the last remaining anti-patterns when using Akka...not understanding your hardware.




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ABOUT PRESENTER

Manuel Bernhardt, Engineer, Author, Speaker and Consultant

Manuel Bernhardt is a passionate engineer, author, speaker and consultant who has a keen interest in the science of building and operating networked applications that run smoothly despite their distributed nature. Since 2008, he has guided and trained enterprise teams on the transformation to distributed computing. In recent years he is focusing primarily on production systems that embrace the reactive application architecture, using Akka, Lagom, Play Framework, Scala and Java to this end.

ABOUT PRESENTERS

Manuel Bernhardt, Engineer, Author, Speaker and Consultant

Manuel Bernhardt is a passionate engineer, author, speaker and consultant who has a keen interest in the science of building and operating networked applications that run smoothly despite their distributed nature. Since 2008, he has guided and trained enterprise teams on the transformation to distributed computing. In recent years he is focusing primarily on production systems that embrace the reactive application architecture, using Akka, Lagom, Play Framework, Scala and Java to this end.





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