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 …

Talk at LambdaConf 2020 This blog post is a companion to the Lambdaconf 2020 Talk I did on this topic. Video of my talk will be added to this post once it is available. Slides of my talk at LambdaConf 2020 My Journey to being an Open source contributor I started my programming life at the age of eleven which lead to me …

One of the highlights of 2018 was attending and being part of the Scale By the bay 2018 conference in San Francisco. This by far was the best conference I have ever attended. from left: Dick Wall, Salar Rahmanian, Martin Odersky (Creator of Scala), Alexy Khrabrov, Jakob Odersky The conference had 3 tracks covering the …