Looking for a good Akka spare time learning project

[Haddock]

Hello,

I would like to develop a little Akka project with Scala in my spare time. I have been exposed to concurrent programming before and therefore think I have a not so bad understanding of acors.

Problem is that it is hard to find a good project to work on. What I came up with so far was bird flock simulation, particle simulation or interactive games. Problem with this is that things like that will make people lift an eyebrow in some job interview if I try to explain my Scala skills (especially with a game). So I need something like a stock exchange simulation or some trading simulation. But this is hard to do without knowing the problem domain.

So I thought I ask whether anyone has some idea for some little nice Akka project where something is done in a reactive way.

Thank you, Haddock

[Eric Zoerner]

You could check out an open source chat application (both front and back end) I am working on in my spare time to get practice with and demo akka, including akka-cluster, persistence, sharding, http, streams, and (eventually) websockets. The code base is still quite small and not all the pieces are in place, even so it is a working app; it would be a great opportunity for learning the application of the various akka technologies.

As more people get involved with the project, it will also benefit other developers who are getting up to speed with the akka toolkit.

If this is of interest, then hopefully the README is enough to get oriented, but feel free to ask questions.

https://github.com/ezoerner/scalable-chat

good luck,

Eric

[ric...@jesims.com.au]

Hey Haddock,

I'm working on a journey management system and plan to use Akka to create a Finite State Machine to execute requests in parallel as they are triggered by mostly external events. Let me know if that sounds like something you wanted to be involved with.

Cheers, Richard

[Ernesto Menéndez]

A discrete event simulation engine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_event_simulation).

[Richard Sazima]

Yep, something along these lines, thanks Ernesto!

Cheers,

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Richard Sazima

On 19 Mar 2015, at 06:27, Ernesto Menéndez <pya...@gmail.com> wrote:

A discrete event simulation engine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_event_simulation).

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[Haddock]

Am Mittwoch, 18. März 2015 21:29:56 UTC+1 schrieb Ernesto Menéndez:

A discrete event simulation engine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_event_simulation).

I think this is a good idea and I will take this direction. The game I was thinking of was kind of a discrete event simulation. But I can get a book about it and get input for some "serious" simulation.

Thanks to Eric and Richard for their offers. Think I first have to start with something small to begin with ...

-- Haddock

[Richard Sazima]

You’re welcome.

Cheers