Farewell Any => Unit, welcome Akka Typed!
May 16, 2018
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Heiko Seeberger
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Akka has become a very successful platform for building reactive systems. At its core the akka-actor module implements the actor model as created by Carl Hewitt et al. Surprisingly enough, although Scala and Java are type safe languages, Akka actors are untyped: we can send Any message to an actor even though it will only handle specific ones ? the compiler is not able to help us. Fortunately rescue is at hand in the form of Akka Typed. In this talk we introduce its API, discuss differences between the "old and new" world and show options for migration and integration. Required knowledge Solid Scala skills Basic Akka knowledge Learning objectives Learn the API of Akka Typed Understand the differences between untyped and typed Akka Learn how to migrate and integrate Heiko Seeberger loves rock climbing and is an internationally renowned expert on Scala, Akka and Functional Programming. He has more than twenty years of experience in software engineering, consulting and training and is an active open source contributor. Heiko works as an independent consultant and regularly shares his knowledge at conferences and user group meetings. He tweets under @hseeberger and blogs under heikoseeberger.rocks.Akka has become a very successful platform for building reactive systems. At its core the akka-actor module implements the actor model as created by Carl Hewitt et al. Surprisingly enough, although Scala and Java are type safe languages, Akka actors are untyped: we can send Any message to an actor even though it will only handle specific ones ? the compiler is not able to help us. Fortunately rescue is at hand in the form of Akka Typed. In this talk we introduce its API, discuss differences betw…
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