In November 2020 I had the great privilege to do a Talk at Scale By The Bay Conference. Here is the recording of my talk I also wrote three blogs posts as a companion to my talk Introduction to the Actor Model Introduction to Akka Typed Using Scala Introduction to Zio Actors

In this post I am going to do a quick introduction to using the ZIO Actors, a library that implements the Actor model using Scala and ZIO a library for asynchroneous and concurrent programming. Before reading this post it is recommended that you read my two earlier posts Introduction to the Actor Model and Introduction …

In this post I am going to do a quick introduction to using the Akka Typed toolkit that implements the Actor model using Scala. As part of this post I will be developing a simple application using Akka. My goal is to highlight what its like to develop applications using Akka and how to get started with it. I will be …

My first proper computer was an IBM PC clone with an Intel 486 processor. It had a button on it called turbo that when you pushed it would run the processor at double the speed. I say proper as before that I had started my computer journey with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum (48k Ram) and a Commodore 64 (64k Ram) hence …