Preface
Writing good, concurrent, and distributed applications is hard. Having just finished a project that demanded a lot of low-level concurrency programming in Java, I was on the lookout for simpler tools for the next project, which promised to be even more challenging.
In March 2010 I noticed a tweet by Dean Wampler that made me look into Akka:
W00t! RT @jboner: #akka 0.7 is released: http://bit.ly/9yRGSB
After some investigation into the source code and building a prototype, we decided to use Akka. It was immediately apparent that this new programming model would really simplify the problems we experienced in the previous project.
I convinced Rob Bakker to join me in a bleeding-edge technology adventure, and together we took the leap ...
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