In this episode Justin and Craig have the privilege of speaking with
Jonas Bonér about
Scala and
Akka. Jonas is a highly intelligent guy who's worked at Terracotta, BEA and was a founder of
AspectWerkz.
We learn what Scala is and how the Akka framework helps developers write concurrent and fault tolerant systems. If you like what you hear from Jonas, be sure to follow him on Twitter @jboner
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About the Author
Craig Tataryn started his career as a Visual Basic programmer, but don't hold that against him! The system he helped create was a cutting edge, n-tiered revenue collection system whose transactions per second metric was off the charts! Around the year 2000 he discovered Struts and never looked back. A professional
Java developer for close to a decade, Craig has worked on a wide variety of projects ranging from Recruiting, Purchase order, Revenue collection and Mortgage systems. More recently Craig has written web services for children's educational toys and has honed his skills on
Wicket,
SOA and
iOS application development. "
I love to learn and more importantly I love to teach. Hoarding knowledge is one of the most petty and selfish things you can do, especially as a contractor. This is why I always make it a point to document and share my knowledge with my client's employees"
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