Roland Kuhn - Project Lead, Akka
Wed - 11:30-12:30 PM, Salon E
Frameworks
Building on the success of Reactive Extensions—first in Rx.NET and now in RxJava—we are taking Observers and Observables to the next level: by adding the capability of handling back-pressure between asynchronous execution stages we enable the distribution of stream processing across a cluster of potentially thousands of nodes. The project defines the common interfaces for interoperable stream implementations on the JVM and is the result of a collaboration between Twitter, Netflix, Pivotal, RedHat and Typesafe. In this presentation I introduce the guiding principles behind its design and show examples using the actor-based implementation in Akka.