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.