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Above the Clouds: Introducing Akka

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Jonas Bonér introduces Akka, a JVM platform that wants to address the complex problems of concurrency, scalability and fault tolerance using Actors, STM and self-healing from crashes.

Bio

Jonas Bonér has worked at Terracotta, the JRockit JVM at BEA and is an active contributor to the Open Source community. The most notable contributions are: creator of the Akka Project, the AspectWerkz AOP framework, committer to the Terracotta JVM clustering technology and been part of the Eclipse AspectJ team. Blog: jonasboner.com, Twitter: @jboner.

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The « What's Next » conference will be the biggest Java event ever organized in France as of 2011, gathering the vibrant French community. It will gather all the most important Java experts of the world around various high-level interventions. The goal of this annual conference is to bring the audience the most up-to-date information on the new and emerging technologies around the Java platform.