Building Massively Scalable Applications with Akka 2.0

July 18, 2012July 18, 2012 Vikas HazratiArchitecture, Studio-Scala, WebAkka, scala, Scalability, Web

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Recently Knoldus, presented at the IndicThreads conference, New Delhi on the power of Akka 2.0. The case study involved a demonstration on how a major white goods company is able to analyse their social feeds in real time and respond back to customers needs.

The solution currently runs on a cluster of 40 nodes with 16 cores on each node. The presentation emphasized on the need for immutability and how Scala and Akka were able to solve the business case.

Written by Vikas Hazrati

Vikas is the CEO and Co-Founder of Knoldus Inc. Knoldus does niche Reactive and Big Data product development on Scala, Spark, and Functional Java. Knoldus has a strong focus on software craftsmanship which ensures high-quality software development. It partners with the best in the industry like Lightbend (Scala Ecosystem), Databricks (Spark Ecosystem), Confluent (Kafka) and Datastax (Cassandra). Vikas has been working in the cutting edge tech industry for 20+ years. He was an ardent fan of Java with multiple high load enterprise systems to boast of till he met Scala. His current passions include utilizing the power of Scala, Akka and Play to make Reactive and Big Data systems for niche startups and enterprises who would like to change the way software is developed. To know more, send a mail to hello@knoldus.com or visit www.knoldus.com