Something else I picked up at Devoxx is Akka. I had heard of it before. Following a session about it renewed my interest.
Akka is a framework created to address problems in creating highly scalable and concurrent software. It is also the name of a mountain in Sweden and a Goddess.
Akka’s Keywords are: concurrency, scalability, fault-tolerance
Akka tries to address system overloads and is currently used in finance, telecom simulation, e-commerce and betting system. All applications that need a lot of event driven actions.
If you have heard of the Play framework, it will be using Akka internally from 2.0 on.
An Akka application uses Actors. What’s an actor: an object that encapsulates state and behaviour. Actors talk to each other as like they send mail. They don’t wait for each other. ( e.g. an actor could be every user in a mmorpg)
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