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Akka for Concurrency Works
Summary
Duncan DeVore reviews the challenges of concurrent programming on the JVM and explores Akka, a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed applications on the JVM.
Bio
Duncan DeVore is passionate about reactive application (distributed systems) design using tools such as Scala and Akka. As VP of Software Engineering at Viridity Energy, he and his team have helped pioneer this paradigm by bringing online one of the first large scale reactive applications.
About the conference
Software is Changing the World. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.