High Performance Actors

Typically, when looking at performance, organisations look at it in terms of resource utilisation. One way Akka actors stand out is by using resources very efficiently, while also maintaining the Reactive Principles such as resilience, i.e. the ability to react to failure in a non-catastrophic, graceful manner.

In this talk, we’ll take a deep-dive to investigate how efficient resource utilisation is achieved with Akka. We'll look at some of the other libraries that Akka leverages for improved efficiency, e.g. Aeron & JCTools. We’ll also review a real-life business case which illustrates Akka’s ability to outperform other architectures and achieve efficient resource utilisation while lower operating costs.

After this session, you should be confident in your ability to achieve improved efficiency at scale with Akka. You should also be ready to start building performance critical systems using the Actor model.