April Meeting, Akka Talk #2

[helena]

Great to meet everyone last night.

For the April meeting do people want to just code something in Akka? I'm thinking based on talking with a few people that the topics of routers and routing might be good.
Or would people rather do the less glamorous topic of testing with akka? There were a few questions around that as well.

Helena
Twitter: @helenaedelson

[helena]

Or perhaps message send patterns: ! or ? with futures

Helena
Twitter: @helenaedelson

[Jeff Shutt]

Thank you again for presenting last night and being willing to present next month. Honestly I think any of those would be great, but perhaps it would be helpful if you created a google form(or some other survey tool) to survey what specific Akka topic people are most interested in. You could also discuss message send patterns or routing and then we could practice coding some of the examples.

[Kevin Edwards]

Helena, excellent presentation. Thank you.

Yea, I'd love to code something with it.

Thanks,

Kev

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[Erik]

Thanks again Helena. Great to meet you. My vote in order would be:
1) Test and debug
2) Message patterns with futures

[Helena Edelson]

From a few responses so far, and from feedback after the meeting it sounds like I could easily do a longer session vs 30 minutes this time: 

We will write code and run 2 Akka applications, using various messaging and routing patterns, so that they are passing data to each other. 

Then spend some time using Akka TestKit with the app, for async testing strategies. 

I'll set a project on github for people to simply download so we don't run into set up glitches. 

You will need: GIT and Scala 2.10. If you are not familiar with GIT don't worry about it, you'll only need one command once it's installed: 'git clone'.

For future:

If people are working with disparate services, say some scala apps and some python, I can discuss using Akka ZeroMQ as a data transport pattern.

The Akka multi-jvm test kit is fantastic, but a more advanced topic for later, and particularly well matched with Akka Cluster, another topic I am happy to do a talk on.

Helena

Twitter: @helenaedelson

[coach3pete]

Sounds fantastic!

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