REST on Akka: Connect to the world
Geared towards providing and consuming REST APIs in high-performance systems, akka-http enhances the increasingly popular Akka toolkit (akka.io) with its own client- & server-side HTTP stack: - Fully async & non-blocking - Reactive-Streams "all the way through (reactive-streams.org) - Flexible and concise, yet powerful and type-safe high-level APIs - Entirely written in Scala, no external deps - Deeply typed, immutable HTTP model - Successor of spray.io Akka-http delivers an excellent tool for connecting your applications to the world. In this session we'll look into what akka-http brings to the table, how it is used and how it improves upon previous solutions. You'll learn about best practices, who'll benefit most from its features as well as the roadmap forward.
Author:
Mathias Doenitz
Among many other things Mathias is the original author of spray.io, which was acquired by Typesafe in 2013. As a long-time and active member of the Java and Scala open-source communities he is especially excited about everything performance-, scalability- and web-related.
