Akka Streams to the Extreme by Heiko Seeberger

Actors are a powerful yet highly focussed and rather low-level tool. Often there are better ways to implement certain aspects of a domain. In this talk we share our experiences with using Akka Streams at the core of the web services created at MOIA which offers ride sharing services. We will argue that streams are a better fit to implement the typical processes of web applications and we will investigate how Akka Streams can be used to protect against overload, enable lossless redeployments and – by using some advanced features – even enable something like "stream sharding".

Heiko Seeberger loves rock climbing, is an internationally renowned expert on Scala, Akka and Functional Programming and is enthusiastic about Rust. He has more than twenty years of experience in software engineering, consulting and training and is an active open source contributor. Heiko works as an independent consultant and regularly shares his knowledge at conferences and user group meetings. He tweets as @hseeberger and sometimes blogs at heikoseeberger.rocks.