Jan will show how the Reactive Monitor helped a major financial services organisation to provide monitoring of their Akka system. The talk will explore the challenges of monitoring mission-critical systems, especially under heavy load. Jan will show the implementation details of the Reactive Monitor, pointing out the benefits of the Akka IO layer to implement non-blocking and resilient transport layer. The talk will close by going back to the large-scale system and show how we used the information from the monitoring to tune the Akka system.

You will not need any extensive Scala or Akka experience to understand the core principles, though a good appreciation of the challenges of mission-critical systems will help you understand the scale of the problem; knowledge of Akka, Scala and AspectJ will help you understand the details of the code.

Jan Machacek graduated in Computer Science from the University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic and joined UK-based Cake Solutions in September 2002. Prior to this, Jan worked as a network administrator and programmer in Prague and has much experience in Internet and installation technologies.Jan's role as Lead Developer at Cake Solutions sees him at the centre of all implementation-level details in all projects. In particular, Jan is often called upon to work on some of the most complex and challenging aspects of a system. Since joining Cake, Jan has proven his expertise in both Java and Microsoft .NET not only by taking on a wide variety of highly complex projects but also through his collection of published works covering both topics.Jan co-authored the bestselling book Pro Spring with Rob Harrop in 2005.

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