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Showing posts with label scala. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scala. Show all posts
Tuesday, 15 November 2011

Akka 1.2 Made it Simple to Get Started

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Dear Junior The release of Akka 1.2 is about a month old, but it contains a change that is makes it much easer to try out Akka. It is n...
Thursday, 13 October 2011

Scala Actors and Estragon's Bad Memory

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Dear Junior The event-based actor model in Scala is obviously so much more memory-efficient than the thread-based, so there must ...
Friday, 16 September 2011

Public final and data encapsulation

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Dear Junior We were discussing immutable value objects and using "public final" data-fields for their representation. In tha...
Monday, 12 September 2011

Public final is also Immutable, Again

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Dear Junior I must apologise as in my last letter I mixed two separate discussions into one: one about immutability, and one about encapsu...
Friday, 9 September 2011

"public final" is also Immutable

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Dear Junior Immutable value objects are one of my favourite programming idioms. I really like how they aid and ease the burden of the rest...
Sunday, 7 August 2011

Scala Actors are Just Code - No Magic

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[Note: This letter was originally written about Scala actors when Akka was still a separate framework. Nowadays (fall 2015), Akka have becom...
Friday, 27 May 2011

How Heavy is Estragon - Event-Based Scala Actor

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Dear Junior As we have seen thread-based actors are quite an intuitive model, but is not very efficient in conserving resources. Its main...