We’ve always been big fans of the Programming Throwdown podcast hosted by Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci (engineers at Google and Facebook, respectively). Obviously web-scale engineering at those types of companies tends to be bleeding-edge, and we’ve observed that Patrick and Jason are just very intelligent in how they approach new developer topics.
So we were thrilled that Lightbend CTO and co-founder Jonas Bonér could join Programming Throwdown to discuss the finer points of Akka, Actors and Reactive. Go here to download the full podcast (90min) and learn more about these key topics: