Concurrency on Salar Rahmanian

Acting Lessons for Scala Engineers With Akka and Zio

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 10:20:09 -0700

In November 2020 I had the great privilege to do a Talk at Scale By The Bay Conference.

Recording of my talk

▶ Watch on YouTube

Slides

Slides for my talk can be found here.

I also wrote three blogs posts as a companion to my talk

Introduction to the Actor Model

Next-Level Diagnostics for Async & Concurrent Errors with ZIO

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

In November 2019 I had the great privilege to do a Talk at Scale By The Bay Conference with John A De Goes.

Recording of my talk

▶ Watch on YouTube

Slides

Slides for my talk can be found here.

ZIO Actors

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

ZIO Actors is a high-performance, purely functional library for building, composing, and supervising typed actors based on ZIO using Scala.

Original creator of this project, though I do not maintain it anymore.

My blog post and Talk about ZIO Actors

see here

Introduction to Zio Actors

Sun, 01 Nov 2020 14:14:21 -0800

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 to Akka Typed Using Scala as I have assumed the reader will be familiar with the concepts discussed in those posts. Some basic knowledge of ZIO is assumed.

Introduction to Akka Typed Using Scala

Sat, 24 Oct 2020 20:32:41 -0700

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 following up this post with more posts diving into Akka in more details and exploring more of its features and patterns you can use to solve concurrent and distributed applications.

Introduction to the Actor Model

Sun, 04 Oct 2020 11:23:12 -0700

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 didn’t consider them as serious contenders for this post. It has been a really exciting ride watching hardware and software evolve together. The interesting observation has been that as faster more powerful hardware has come out, software has been quick to grab all the extra speed and resources the new hardware provides.

Concurrency on Salar Rahmanian

Acting Lessons for Scala Engineers With Akka and Zio

Recording of my talk

Slides

I also wrote three blogs posts as a companion to my talk

Next-Level Diagnostics for Async & Concurrent Errors with ZIO

Recording of my talk

Slides

ZIO Actors

Overview

My blog post and Talk about ZIO Actors

Links

Introduction to Zio Actors

Introduction to Akka Typed Using Scala

Introduction to the Actor Model