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Pony Language Designer Sylvan Clebsch on Pony’s Design, Garbage Collection, and Formal Verification
In this podcast Charles Humble talks to Sylvan Clebsch, who is the designer of the actor-model language Pony programming and now works at Microsoft Research in Cambridge in the Programming Language Principles group. They talk about the inspirations behind Pony, how the garbage collector avoids stop-the-world pauses, the queuing systems, work scheduler, and formal verification.
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Jonas Bonér on the Actor Model, Akka, Reactive Programming, Microservices and Distributed Systems
Jonas Boner, CTO of LightBend and creator Akka, discusses using Akka when developing distributed systems. He talks about the Actor Model, and how every Microservice needs to be viewed as a system to be successful.