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Reactive programming and the Actor model with Jonas Bonér
- Tell us about your background
- What is reactive programming?
- What is the actor model? How does it fit with reactive programming?
- Why would someone use this way of programming?
- When is it applicable and when it is not a good fit?
- How does the actor model compare to other distributed programming paradigms (MPI, Map-Reduce)
- How can the system recover from node failure?
- What is Akka?
- What is it like to work at Lightbend? Are you hiring?
