Carl Hewitt explains the essence of the Actor Model of computation. 

Brillant. Enjoy.  

Typesafe Stack 2.0 Released

We are proud to announce that Typesafe Stack 2.0 have been released. 

Some of the highlights are: 

  • Akka 2.0
  • Play 2.0 (and Play Mini)
  • Getting Started Templates

Found out more about the details on Akka News.

Akka - Dr Dobb’s Jolt Award Winner

We are very proud to announce that Akka received an honorable mention in the Third Party Libraries category in the Dr Dobb’s Jolt Awards 2012.

Read more here: http://drdobbs.com/joltawards/232601043?pgno=2

Akka 2.0 has landed

Finally, after months of hard work, we are proud to announce Akka 2.0 final. 

Read more about it in this blog post and the release notes.

Now take her for a spin. 

Benchmark: Akka vs Erlang

Franz Bettag have written up a small post about a benchmark between Akka and Erlang.

Interesting results. On his hardware and specific benchmark Erlang R14B04 did 1 million messages per second while Akka 2.0-SNAPSHOT did 2.1 million per second.

Read more here: http://uberblo.gs/2011/12/scala-akka-and-erlang-actor-benchmarks

…and we still have a lot more performance to squeeze out of Akka.

Fun running Akka tests in parallel on my 24 core Linux box. 
sbt parallel testing FTW. 

Fun running Akka tests in parallel on my 24 core Linux box. 

sbt parallel testing FTW. 

Akka Team Blog Is Live

Stay tuned for more soon… :-P