Viktor Klang, Chief Architect at Typesafe discuss five years of Akka with Dick Wall, Josh Suereth and Seth Tisue.

First Hour: Duncan DeVore - Lessons Learned in Deploying Akka Persistence

Second Hour: Jan Machacek, CTO & Alex Lashford, Senior Developer/Team Leader, Cake Solutions Ltd. - Tuning and Monitoring Akka

First Hour: Derek Wyatt, Platform Developer, Auvik Networks, Inc. - Best Practices The Hard Way: Deploying Actors, Await, and Akka Clustering

Second Hour: Mike Nash, Delivery Executive, BoldRadius Solutions - Do's and Don'ts When Deploying Akka in Production

Lambdas have come to Java! Now that more developers have access to this powerful abstraction, many will wonder about the dynamics of how they work and how to best leverage them in their code. In this webinar, Ryan Knight discusses why lambdas are useful and how to best leverage them in Scala, Java 8, Clojure and JRuby.

Reactive Streams has a lot to offer Play, providing an asynchronous streaming API that is easy to learn and easy to use from both Java and Scala. Play 3.0 will be embracing this new API as the base level IO API, but what implications will this have on Play's architecture? What will happen to iteratees? How much will this impact existing Play applications? This presentation will dive deep into Play's architecture, and show just how reactive streams will be applied to and improve Play.

This session will focus on Gilt's implementation of Play Framework across its architecture--starting with Gilt Live, a real-time page showcasing purchases made in real-time, and eventually branching out to many critical parts of the company's tech organization (from search to inventory status updates). Play has offered Gilt numerous advantages in terms of accessibility, scalability and performance. You'll hear more about lessons learned and the many advantages Play has offered to Gilt, a rapidly-moving eCommerce company with more than eight million users.

In 2013, The Huffington Post made a major decision as part of their new platform architecture to invest heavily in the Typesafe stack, specifically, Play and Akka. In this talk you will learn about how the Huffington Post leverages Akka inside of Play to build highly concurrent, low latency and fault tolerant applications to deal with process workflow and asynchronous integrations to various backend data sources such as MySQL using Slick and Search engines such as Elastic Search.

In this session you will learn architecture strategies to help develop Play and Scala applications on large enterprise projects. The talk will cover strategies to help integrate Play with complex ecosystems and other enterprise development challenges. The secondary objective is to assist designing Play applications that are developed by multiple, distributed, cross-functional teams.

Lessons learned, challenges faced, and the fun we've had transitioning our legacy architecture to Scala and the Play Framework.