Mon, 7 December 2009 Episode 47 - Jonas Boner on the Akka framework, Scala, and highly scalable applications Today's podcast features Jonas Bonér, the creator of the Akka framework.  If you've been listening to the podcast, especially to Episode #37 with Alex Miller on Java Concurrency, here is an alternative approach to providing scalability on the Java VM. Akka features an implementation of Actors, Software Transactional Memory, and Transactors, a hybrid approach to working with STM inside of Actors themselves.  Jonas also provides a mechanism for writing these components inside of the Java language as well. Actors are not a direct part of the Scala language. Rather, they are implemented as a library.  There are, in fact, at least three implementations.  Jonas Bonér's Akka framework includes actors as well as access to Software Transactional Memory.  In this episode, my colleague Jamie Allen and I interview Jonas to try to pull apart what Actors and Software Transactional Memory are, and how they can help developers write highly scalable, concurrent applications. Links: The Akka Mountain in Sweden (Akka is named after the mountain) The Akka framework homepage is www.akkasource.org (or www.akkasource.com or even www.letitcrash.com) A good blog entry about Akka  The high level overview of Akka from the akkasource site Jonas' home page and the Akka twitter handle   Direct download: Chariot_TechCast_47-Jonas_Boner_and_Akka.mp3 Category: techcast -- posted at: 10:51 AM Comments[0]

Listen Now!

Click the icon on the show title to download a show, or:

Subscribe (full feed)!

Sub-feeds

The TechCast	rss
Conference Sessions	rss
BizCast	rss
DevNews!	rss

Listener Feedback

New Survey!

There are lots of ways to get involved. Here are a few...

• Twitter @techcast or use hashtag #techcast in your comments!
• Email techcastfeedback at chariotsolutions.com
• Discuss on our Facebook Fan Page
• Delicious - submit a devnewsideas story
• View the delicious news items
• View our guests' tweets!

Archives

January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August

February
March
April
May
July
August
September
October
November
December

February
March
April
May
June
July
August
October
December

Favorite Sites

• Our Tweets
• Grails Podcast
• SpringSource Blogs
• Chariot Blog
• Hibernate / JBoss Bloggers
• Ruby Inside

Thanks for attending
Visit our ETE Community Site

About the TechCast...

We bring you interviews with project creators, architects and consultants, and feature major open source projects and initiatives, such as Spring, Flex and RIA technologies, Mule, Groovy/Grails, Rails, Scala, Cloud Computing (Amazon, Google), and much more.

About the host

Ken Rimple got into recording at an early age by watching his father work at radio stations in the Delaware Valley. He has more than twenty years experience in information technology and has a keen interest in emerging and innovative trends in software development, as well as interest in the people behind the technologies.

Disclosures

From time to time, we discuss news items related to specific companies and projects. We will make every attempt to disclose any relationships during our podcasts. Some of our partners include:

• SpringSource
• JBoss, a division of RedHat
• Sun / Oracle
• MulesSoft
• Engine Yard
• Apache
• Sonatype

Plugs and Feedback...

We are using Free Theme #3 and Free Theme #4 from podcastthemes.com. Mark Blasco works very hard at customizing themes for individual podcast, including This Week in Tech, MacBreak Weekly, and many others.

Please leave feedback via comments or email.

Syndication